Pylos

In Pylos, you want to be the one to place the final ball on top of the pyramid. Sounds simple enough, right?

At the start of the game, each player has fifteen balls, light or dark, and they take turns placing them on a game board that has sixteen notches in a 4x4 grid. Once four balls have been placed next to each other in a square, a ball can be placed on top of them, forming a second level of play. Players can then place balls on this second level, eventually allowing one ball to be placed on the third level, and once that level is full, which requires only four balls, a final ball can be placed on the fourth level. , and that player wins. the game.

If a player forms a square of his color, that is, four balls placed next to each other on the same level, that player can remove one or two of his balls (that do not support nothing) from anywhere on the board and place them in your reserve, thus giving you more balls to place in the future. Every time a player forms a square that is not quite his color, he can "stack" one of his pieces, that is, he can take any ball and place it on this square, locking some pieces in place and making a move without have to do it. place a piece from your pool.

Rules include a child variant (removing the bonus square) and an expert variant (allowing a player to return 1-2 balls to their pool when creating a line of its color).