Players:You + 3 computersTwo peopleThree peopleFour people
Pawns:4 pawns each2 pawns each – quick game
Turn: Santa (You)
- Santa YouHome: 0/4
- Elf Player 2Home: 0/4
- Snowman Player 3Home: 0/4
- Reindeer Player 4Home: 0/4
You can print the board and play at the table with an ordinary die and buttons in four colours as pawns.
Share your score Games: 0 · won by you: 0
How to play
- Each player has 4 pawns in their base (2 in the quick game); a pawn can only come out onto its start square on a six.
- Pawns move clockwise as many squares as the die shows, and after a full lap they turn into their own coloured lane to the finish.
- Land on a square with another player's pawn and you send it back to its base – except on the squares with a star or a snowflake, where everyone is safe; your own pawns may share a square.
- A six gives one more throw, the finish has to be reached exactly, and if no pawn can move the turn passes on; the first player with every pawn home wins.
Why play? It is a classic that grandparents and grandchildren play together – the rules take a minute to explain and the cheers at every capture are the same in every generation. Four people can play on one tablet at the Christmas table, and a single player gets three computer opponents.
Also useful
- Christmas Snakes and Ladders: candy-cane ladders and jolly snakes
- Christmas Reversi: gingerbread cookies against snowballs
- Christmas Checkers: red baubles against white snowballs
- Christmas Chess: Santa, reindeer and trees on the board
- Christmas Sea Battle: sink the festive fleet on a winter sea
- Christmas Four in a Row: red baubles against gold
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