Abalone

You Are Never Alone with Abalone!

Two camps face off across a hexagonal board containing black and white marbles. Your objective: push six opposing marbles into the rails along the edge of the board. Sharpen your attack and refine your defense. Observe, plan, and weigh your options at every move!

How to play?

• Pushone to threemarbles one space in any direction.

• Three marblespush one or two marbles.

• Two marblespush one marble.

• You’ve pushedsix opposing marblesoff the board? Youve won!

A few tips for Abalone:

• You should pronounce it: Ab-a-lone (ab lon).Abis a Latin prefix meaningnever, so you are never alone with Abalone. Protect your marbles by keeping them close to their friends!

• When twisted 90 degrees clockwise, the Abalone logo reads 3, 2, one. This is fundamental, as 3 pushes 2, 3 pushes 1, and 2 pushes 1.

Contents:

• 1 Game Board

• 14 Black Marbles

• 14 White Marbles

• Instructions

Players: 2

Ages: 7 and up