Yavalath

• Board
• Objective
• Play
• End of Game
• Variants
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Yavalath is played on a hexagonal board with five cells per side:

The game begins with an empty board.

Each player has an allocated color: White or Black.

Starting with White, players take turns placing a stone of their color in any empty cell on the board.

The game ends in one of the following cases:

• One of the players wins a game by making a line of four (or more) stones of his color.
• One of the players loses a game by making a line of three stones of his color without making a line of four stones the same time.
• The board fills up before either player wins or loses. In this case the game ends up in a draw.

• Three-Player Version.
  This variant is played according to the same rules, except that players must block the next player's win if possible, and any player forming a line of three stones without also forming a line of four stones is removed from the game (but not their stones). The winner is either the last surviving player or the first player who forms a line of four stones.

• Five-not-four.
  This variant should be played on larger boards, i.e. six cells per side. A player wins a game if he forms a line of five stones of his color. A player loses a game if he forms a line of four stones without simultaneously making a line of five stones of his color.

• Yavalath rules and history on Cameron Browne's homepage.