Rules and Tournament Format

Naihe Ruleset

1. Set the board with alternating black and white ʻiliʻili stones. Player 1 will pick their color randomly by choosing a color hidden in Player 2’s hand. If the revealed stone is black, then Player 1 goes first, playing with the black stones. If it is white, Player 1 will go second, playing with the white stones.

2. Black will remove a black stone from the center “piko” or from the corner. White will remove a stone immediately next to the empty puka (hole). Two empty pukas should be adjacent to each other.

3. Black will begin jumping over white pieces into an available empty puka, followed by white jumping over black into an empty puka. You must jump over your opponent’s pieces. If you cannot jump, you lose.

4. Players may only move in a forward-backward or left-right motion, never diagonally. You may jump more than once, but only in a straight line, no changing directions. Jumping more than once in a straight line is not required.