Barricade is a game where you have to be both lucky and clever. It is played between 2 to 4 players, where each player’s objective is to reach the “finish” square. To do this, they must move forward and move the barricades by rolling the die.
Goal of the game
- To be the first to reach the “finish” square.
Contents
– 1 double-sided game board,
– 1 die,
– 20 counters of 4 different colors,
– 11 barricades.
Set up
- Place the board in the center of the table.
- Each player receives 5 pieces and places them on the corresponding squares. These are the starting squares.
- The barricades are placed on the red squares.
- The youngest player starts.
- Then play clockwise.
How does a round go?
- The player rolls the die and moves one of his pieces as many squares as the number rolled.
- The player is free to include as many pieces of his own color as he wishes, and may advance any piece he wishes.
The moves
- The starting squares do not count as a move.
- The first square is the black square above each player’s starting square.
- A piece can move to the left, just as it can move to the right.
- However, it cannot move back and forth during its turn.
Skipping Pieces
- Whether it’s your own or your opponent’s, you can skip a checker that’s in your path.
- A skipped checker counts as an empty square.
Skipping checkers
- Only one piece can be placed on a square.
- As soon as a piece arrives on a square already occupied, the previous occupant returns to the starting square.
Barricades
- You cannot jump barricades.
- However, you can move
- To do so, you must land on the barricade by rolling the die.
- Then move the barricade to a square of your choice.
- In some versions, you are not allowed to move the barricade to any square in the first row of the board.
Skip your turn
- If you are unable to move after a roll, you may skip your turn.
End of the game
- As soon as a player reaches the finish square, the game ends and he/she is declared the winner.
Express variant
- Turn the board over.
- Each player will be given 4 counters instead of 5.
- Place 6 barricades on the red squares.
- The blue squares are rest areas.
- Only one piece can be in a resting place at a time.
- A piece in a resting area cannot be ejected.
- Similarly, it is not allowed to place a barricade in a resting area.
- If a piece is ejected from the village (upper part of the board), it returns to the woods (center of the board).
- The woods can hold several pieces at a time.
Rules in PDF
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