Materials3 black pawns3 white pawns48 square tiles

Setup

Arrange stacks of three tiles into a 4x4 grid, then place two like color pawns on opposite corner stacks. The remaining two pawns are placed at B1 and C4.

Definitions

Adjacent - Means orthogonally or diagonally adjacent.

Play

One player is black the other white.

Decide who goes first in any appropriate manner, turns then alternate.

On a turn you,

Move a friendly pawn to an empty adjacent stack of tiles that is 1 higher, 1 lower or the same height as the one it was on, then remove one empty tile from an adjacent stack.

Objective

There are two ways to win,

1) The player who makes a straight line out of his three pawns either orthogonally or diagonally (the line of pawns must be on adjacent stacks of the same height) or 2) The player last to move.