Contigo

Contigo is an alignment game for two players or a capture game for four players. The object of the two player game is for a player to get four pawns in a row (horizontally, vertically or diagonally) without any opposing pawns between them. The object of the capture game is to capture the key pawn of your opponents by landing on it with one of your own pawns.

Pawns can move vertically or horizontally, but not diagonally. What makes the game tricky is that the pawns are limited in the moves they can make. Around the edge of the board are a series of pits that contain pebbles. A pawn must move a number of spaces equal to the number of pebbles in the pit it is moving toward.

A player moves the pebbles in the pits after they move a pawn. The player picks up one or more pebbles from a pit then drops them in one or more pits. The maximum distance a pebble can be moved is limited by the number of pebbles picked up. (If three pebbles are picked up, the pebbles can be moved up to three pits.)