The players place their 15 meeples on the game board, one per turn. When all meeples are on the board the players move their meeples one space at a time. When a player gets 5 of his meeples in a straight line, he may remove any one meeple of any opposing player. If he does this on the black spaces, forming the name "Erika" he may additionaly reenter one of his own removed meeples. If a player manages to occupy the "Erika" spaces of his own color, he wins the game. Another possible way to win the game is to occupy any black "Erika" spaces, the two spaces left and the two spaces right to the letter "I" in "Erika" (forming a cross).