Instructions for the Board Game Abalone

Place the abalone board so the players are sitting across from each other and each is facing a flat edge of the board.

Give one player 14 black marbles and the other player 14 white marbles.

Place one marble in each space on the board starting with the row closest to you until you run out of marbles. The row closest to you should contain five marbles. The next row should contain six marbles and the row furthest out should contain three.

Choose to push one, two or three marbles of your own color in a straight line one space in any direction. After you have moved your marbles, it is your opponent's turn to move.

Move your opponent's marbles one space by pushing a group of your marbles into a smaller group of his marbles. Two of your marbles can push one of his marbles, and three of your marbles can push either one or two of his marbles. If you push one of your opponent's marbles off of the board, it is out of the game.

Push six of your opponent's marbles off of the board to win the game.