Our Opinion:
The Baroness and I bought this game out of curiosity. This game was in all of the toy stores, and it seemed to be the latest Christmas time game fad.
When we opened the box, the game board was nicely made and the stones were pretty. The rules however were a single badly photocopied page of text that described basic play in a very difficult to read format.
Initially, when the rules are read, the basic movement of the stones seems adequately covered, but as play commenced, we found that clarifications were needed. Since all of the rules were compacted into a single paragraph, it is hard to find the exact rule that you want to inspect. The brevity of this paragraph left us angry. We needed to compose a house rule or two to make up for the inadequacies of the packaged rules.
As for the gameplay, we did enjoy the basic style and strategy of the game -- perhaps a different manufacturer of the game has better rules. We were grateful that the game was cheap, the lack of well written rules really hurt this game.
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