Manalath Board Game | BoardGames.com | Your source for everything to do with Board Games

Description

Manalath (from lat. "manus", referring to the five fingers of the hand) is an abstract game for two players from the growing family of Yavalath-like games. Unlike Yavalath however, it was designed by humans.

Material:

a hexagonal hex gameboard with 5 spaces on the side
30 white, 30 black pieces

(a Yavalath set)

Rules: Two players (White and Black) take turns. In their turn, players choose a piece of any(!) color and place it on an empty space. A piece may not be placed such that a group of more than 5 pieces is created.

If there is, at the end of your turn, …

- a group of 5 of your colour, you win.
- a group of 4 of your colour, you lose.

If both conditions are present at the end of your turn, you lose.

If you cannot make a legal move (which is rare) the game is ended, but still the final state has to be examined: if you are neither in a winning nor a losing position, the game ends in a draw.