Lay out the board. Decide who is who. The mole starts. He builds a stack of some of his light-coloured pieces and, as his first turn, places the stack onto any space of the board. Subsequently the gardener takes his turn.
Play continues alternately.
On his turn, the gardener places a single boundary rod onto the edge of a space - an obstacle which the mole cannot breach. Through this method, the gardener attempts to obstruct the mole from moving any further. On his turn, the mole moves his stack onto any empty adjacent space, straight or diagonally. The bottom-most piece, however, remains behind in the old space. The mole is only allowed to move onto spaces he has never visited before, i.e. he can only move once onto each space.