Colonnade

Colonnade is a two-player game. The 1x8 rectangular grid is initially set up with 12 red and 12 blue checkers in an interspersed pattern. The two players, Red and Blue, take turns moving stacks (or sub-stacks), one stack per turn, starting with Red. Passing is not allowed.

The last player to make a move wins. I.e. if you have no moves available on your turn, you lose. Draws are not possible.

				PlayYou can pick up any one of your checkers from a stack, carrying the checkers above it along, and place it onto an adjacent stack that’s topped with a checker of your color. (A “stack” can be of height 1 in this document.)

When two like-colored checkers are adjacent in a stack, discard one of the two checkers.

You can pick up any one of your checkers from a stack, except if it’s the bottom checker of the stack, carrying the checkers above it along, and move it DOWN onto an unoccupied, adjacent square.

You can’t move the bottom checker of a stack to an unoccupied square.