Deluxe Pente by Winning Moves Games USA Family Strategy Game of Capture Stones for 2 to 4 Players Ages 8+

- HISTORY: This ingenious game was invented by Gary Gabrel while working as a dishwasher at a pizza place in Stillwater, Oklahoma. It went on to become one of the best-selling games at Parker Brother in the 1980's. - PLAYERS: Pente is one of those rare awesome 2 player strategy games, that is equally as awesome with 3 players or teams of 2. - THE BOARD: For those that remember, the board is just like the original. It is made of mouse pad like material and rolls up so it can easily go in a back pack! - THE PLAY: Players take turns placing 1 stone on the board at a time. The object is to simply get 5 in a row, or to capture 5 sets of your opponents stones.. - CAPTURE: Often times it's easier to capture your opponents stones than to get 5 in a row. A capture happens when you surround 2 of your opponents stones on both sides.

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The Great Strategy Game of Pente!

One at a time players place their glass stones on the intersections of the gameboard - not in the open spaces. In this image you can see that the Yellow stones have formed a 3-in-a-row. 5-in-a-row wins the game - so this player is getting close.

Another way to win Pente is to capture 5 sets of an opposing players stones. Captures can only consist of 2 stones. To capture a pair of stones, 2 of the same colored stones must be flanked on both sides by 2 of an opposing players stones. In this image, if yellow places a stone below the 2 green stones, they will capture and remove the 2 vertical green stones. Do you see any other potential captures?

In this iamge we see what it looks like to strategically place 5 stones in a row. It may seem simple, but there's quite a bit of careful strategy involved!