What you’ll need: A 5x5 divided beer mat and a number of Black/White coins each. Play with Coppers/ Silver/ Gold.
How to Play
The players take turns laying one coins their side up onto any free square. Black goes first.
If they make any lines of 3 or more coins, Black, White or both, starting from the coin that they laid, in any direction, they put their coin on any one of their opponent’s coins, if any; but this still counts as a capture. E.g. Black makes a line of 3, regardless of them being Black or White’, and chooses to put his coin on this White coin.
Players may not top an already topped coin.
After a capture they go again, but may not make a 3 or more line.
If they cannot lay without doing so they miss their second go.
Either way the next play lays next, and so on.
The game ends when neither player can lay. The winner is the player with the most coins ‘on top’/on the board, who wins all of the pennies on the board.