Der Weg des Königs (The King´s Path) is played on a Board of 4x10 rectangles. The aim of the game is to get your king safe to the oppisite side of the board or to capture the opponents king with one of your henchman. The king does not move across the vacant land, so you fave to develop ractangels to pathes first. For this, you control a third kind of character, an architect.