PATTEIA

Ancient Greece
Strategy

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Strategy

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HISTORY
+ The Greek game Petteia (AKA Poleis, Polis, City, Cities, Pessoi, or Pebbles) is played on boards of differing sizes with black and white
stones initially lined up on opposite sides.
+ In the basic version, an 8 by 8 board was used. They were lined up in the eight squares on each player's side. Similar complete or
nearly complete sets of glass stones and boards also suggest that the number of stones matched the number of squares on each
player's side, regardless of the board size. We can be very certain, therefore, of this as the starting arrangement in Petteia. We can
assume, from the Essex find of the Latrunculi board, that Black plays first.
+ Petteia bears a strong resemblance to the Japanese game Hasami Shogi.

HOW TO START
+ To start you need a standart 8 x 8 board or a 12 x 8 board.
+ You need fill the first row with game pieces. One player is white and the other player ir black.
+ Black starts first.

RULES
+ The gameboard of Petteia
+ A stone in the corner can be captured when two stones are placed across the corner.
+ A stone can be played inside two enemy stones without being captured.
+ The outside walls cannot be used to capture men.
+ Stones cannot skip over other stones as in Checkers.

GAMEPLAY
+ Stones move like rooks in chess - orthogonally (Horizontal or vertical, but not diagonal).
+ A single stone is captured when it is surrounded on two orthogonal sides. ( From the front and rear or from left and right ).
+ Multiple stones can also be captured when surrounded on two orthogonal sides.

HOW TO WIN
+ The first player to "kill" all his opponents stones wins..

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