Yoté is a traditional
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, where it is a popular gambling game due to its fast pace and surprising turnarounds. A player wins by capturing all opposing pieces. Yoté is related to the game
Choko.
Rules
The game is played on a 5×6 board, which is empty at the beginning of the game. Each player has twelve pieces '. Players alternate turns, with White moving first. In a move, a player may either:
* Place a piece in hand on any empty cell of the board.
* Move one of their pieces already on the board
orthogonally
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to an empty adjacent cell.
* Capture an opponent's piece if it is orthogonally adjacent to a player's piece, by jumping to the empty cell immediately beyond it. The captured piece is removed from the board, and the capturing player removes ''another'' of the opponent's pieces of his choosing from the board.
The player who captures all the opponent's pieces is the winner. The game can end in a draw if both players are left with three or fewer pieces.
Optional rules
Yoté is sometimes played using one or more additional rules:
* Captures are never mandatory.
* Multiple successive jumps by a piece in a single turn are permitted. After a multi-jump, the player chooses and removes from the board one piece of the opponent for each piece jumped.
* Capturing entitles the capturing player to a bonus turn.
* A player can jump one of their own pieces; the piece jumped remains .
* If both players are left with three or fewer pieces, the game immediately ends in a draw.
* If a player to move has no move available, the game ends and the player with the greater number of pieces remaining is the winner.
References
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Further reading
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External links
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Yotéat
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