Ugolki (, ,
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
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Culture, language and peoples
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
* ''English'', an Amish ter ...
: ''corners'') is a two-player
board game
A board game is a type of tabletop game that involves small objects () that are placed and moved in particular ways on a specially designed patterned game board, potentially including other components, e.g. dice. The earliest known uses of the ...
, similar to
halma
Halma (from , meaning “leap") is a Abstract strategy game, strategy board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by George Howard Monks, an United States, American thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School. His inspiration was the English game ''Hoppi ...
, that is typically played on an 8×8 grid board with 16 game pieces per player. It is said to have been invented in
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east ...
in the late 18th century. Variations on the size of the board and the number of game pieces also exist.
Game rules
Both players start off with square arrangements of 16 game pieces in opposing corners of the gameboard. Each player's goal is to move all their pieces from the starting corner to the corner occupied by the opponent at the start of the game.
Players take turns moving one game piece. A piece may move only away from the starting location into a destination that is empty, provided either of the following conditions are met:
* the destination square is adjacent to the starting square
* the destination square can be reached by