Activities & Days Out / 16 August, 2017 / Nanny Anita

Nanny Anita’s How To Play Five Field Kono

Five field Kono originates from Korea and is an abstract strategy game along the same sort of lines as Chinese checkers. I’m sure you could pick up a board online, but I thought it would be fun to make my own travel sized one, similar to the travel one I made of the mancala game last week.

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You will need:

• Paper
• Pen
• Ruler
• Counters/ wooden cubes

Start by making a 4 by 4 grid on a piece of paper.

You will need 7 counters in two different colours. You could take these from another game, or you could get some wooden cubes and colour them in. I got a pack of wooden cubes so that I could use them in different games (like mancala) without having to constantly raid our other games.

How to Play Five Field Kono:

The game is sort of like Chinese checkers in that you have to get your pieces to the other end of the board. BUT there are a few rules:

Mum making her first move.

1.  You can only move your piece diagonally.

2. You can’t jump over another piece or land on a space that is already occupied by another piece.

Moving backwards was only one of the moves that my mum could do on this turn.

3. You can move forwards and backwards.

4.You can only move one place at a time.

Looks like I’m going to win this round.

The first person to get all their pieces to the starting locations of their opponent’s pieces.

Yup, I won, but only just.

I’ve not played this game with EC or YC yet, but I played it with my mother and we both enjoyed it.

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