HOLLY 

Copyright (c) 1990s ??

Holly is played on a Dvonn board. Each player has 9 stones off-board.

 

TURN - On each turn, each player move one friendly stone. Stones can move to adjacent empty cells or jump over adjacent enemy stones (capturing them) landing on the immediate next empty cell. Jumps are mandatory and may be (optionally) multiple. A jump sequence cannot end at the starting cell. GOAL - The game ends when a player captures all enemy stones.

 

An example The marked black stone moves to [1]. White must capture that stone and Black wins in the next turn by capturing the last white stone.

Games with 100% symmetrical move and capture ranges usually do not work well. However, in this case, the board has a lot of edge cells that create an asymmetry increasing its overall interest. I wish to thank Lada Urbanova for this game information. A related game is Trop.

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