Controls

You play by tapping. Tap one of your pieces and its legal moves light up, then tap where you want it to go. The game handles the rules for you, so it will show captures and stop you from making an illegal move.

A few rules cover everything you need:

• Regular pieces move one square diagonally forward onto an empty dark square.
• Captures happen by jumping straight over an adjacent enemy piece into the empty square beyond it. If another jump is available right after, you keep jumping in the same turn.
• Kings are made when a piece reaches the far row. A king can move and capture backward as well as forward, which makes it much stronger.

You win by capturing all of your opponent's pieces, or by leaving them with no legal move.

Against the computer, the difficulty climbs across eight levels, so the opponent starts forgiving and grows into a real test of your planning.

Tips

• Keep your back row intact early. The pieces on your home row block your opponent from crowning kings, so holding that line for a while denies them their strongest weapon.
• Control the center. Pieces in the middle of the board have more directions to move and attack, while pieces stuck on the edges have fewer options and are easier to trap.
• Look before you accept a free capture. An undefended piece is sometimes bait. Before you take it, check whether the jump lands you where a chain of return captures is waiting.
• Try to make kings before your opponent does. A king's ability to move backward changes the whole board, so the player who crowns first often takes control of the endgame.
• Trade pieces when you are ahead. If you have more pieces, swapping evenly makes your advantage bigger in proportion, steering the game toward a win you can convert.
• Watch for forced-jump traps. Because captures are usually mandatory, you can sometimes offer one piece to force your opponent into a jump that sets up a bigger capture for you.

Frequently asked questions