Components 64 bi-color stones 8x8 board Setup The board is placed between the players and starts out empty. The 64 bi-colored stones are set nearby so that both players have access to them. One player plays black the other plays white. Group - a set of 2 or more friendly orthogonally adjacent stones. Play Black starts, turns then alternate. On a turn a player must, Drop 2 stones (one of each color) onto 2 empty orthogonally adjacent spaces on the board. If a player closes off an area that contains 2 to 4 spaces, either by surrounding them with dropped stones or by using a combination of dropped stones and the edges of the board, he then proceeds to fill the enclosed spaces with his own color stones. The game ends when a player is unable to take his turn. Object The player with the largest group wins.