Rakado
Rakado or Racado is a board game for two to four players, the classic on a Halma - or Chinese Checkers plan is played. You also need 16 game pieces in two colors and a six-sided die .
Style of play
Rakado is played as a dice board game on a game board. Two players play against each other and each has to move their own pieces from one side of the game board to the opposite side. The pieces are drawn based on the result of the dice, and opposing pieces can be captured. The winner of a game is the player who in the end has brought the most pieces to the other side of the game.
Rakado on the stalk plan
Rakado is usually played on a classic Halma game board with 16 × 16 fields. The 16 playing figures of the two players are each set up along an edge so that they are facing each other. The player who rolls the higher number goes first. Then the two players alternately roll the dice and move any piece according to the number of points in a straight line. If there is a six, the dice are rolled again. Opposing pieces must be captured if they can be exactly reached with the die roll. You hit not only straight ahead, but also diagonally forwards or sideways; since it is mandatory to hit, a player loses his own piece if he has not hit. If there are several possibilities to hit, the player is free to choose. Opposing and own pieces may not be jumped over and there is no way to avoid them in a straight line.
The aim of the game is to get as many of your own pieces as possible to the opposite row. This must be reached exactly without overdue eyes, playing pieces at the goal may not be captured and also no longer capture themselves. The winner is the player who in the end has brought the most pieces to the other side of the game. Alternatively, the game ends when a player no longer has a chance to move, even then the winner is the player who has the most pieces in the goal.
In a rakado game with four players, two players each form a party. In this case, the players place 8 pieces of their color in the middle of the common baseline, so that the two parties face each other like in a two-player game. The dice are rolled in such a way that a player from one side and a player from the other side take turns. Here, the party that has the most pieces in the goal wins.
Rakado on the star stalk plan
In principle, the same rules apply to the game on the star stalk plan as on the classic stalk plan. As with the Halma game for two people, two starting spaces are filled with 15 pawns each. The players also receive a game die and take turns rolling. The players then each move one piece in a straight line, but are not allowed to jump and must use the full number of points. If there is an opposing figure on the target field, it is captured and removed from the game. Here, too, there is a compulsion to hit and a player who does not take this into account loses the piece with which he should have moved. The aim of the game is to get as many of your own pawns as possible undefeated into the opposite target field. Pieces that have arrived there may no longer be captured and can no longer capture.
A game with three players is also possible on the star stalk board, in which the players have to reach the opposite, empty corner.
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c d e f "Rakado" In: Erhard Gorys : The book of games. Manfred Pawlak Verlagsgesellschaft, Herrsching o. J .; Pp. 274-275.
- ↑ a b c "Rakado." In: Erwin Glonnegger : The games book. Board and placement games from all over the world - origins, rules and history. New edition of Drei Magier Verlag, Uehlfeld 1999; 203. ISBN 3-9806792-0-9 .
- ↑ "Halma" rules and variants in a game manual by Schmidt Spiele, p. 9. ( full text )
literature
- “Rakado.” In: Erwin Glonnegger : The Games Book. Board and placement games from all over the world - origins, rules and history. New edition of Drei Magier Verlag, Uehlfeld 1999; 203. ISBN 3-9806792-0-9 .
- “Rakado” In: Erhard Gorys : The Book of Games. Manfred Pawlak Verlagsgesellschaft, Herrsching o. J .; Pp. 274-275.