The Basics
- The first player slides all thirty discs (sjoelschijven) down the board (sjoelbak) with the aim of getting them into the slots at the far end – this is a sub-turn.
- Once they have finished, any discs that are completely in a slot are stacked neatly in the slot and any discs that have not passed completely into a slot are returned to the same player and they slide those discs down the board again.
- The discs that are in slots are stacked and those that aren’t completely in slots are returned once again and the player has a third and final go at sliding the discs down the board.
- The game is scored (see below), the slots are cleared and the next player takes their turn.
Scoring
- To count in the score, the whole of a disc must have passed the front face of the slots.
- Each disc counts for the number of points shown on the front of the slot it’s in: 2, 3, 4 or 1.
- If the player gets a disc in each slot, they get double score for those discs, a total of 20 points (i.e. 2+3+4+1=10; 10×2=20)
- Therefore, the maximum three sub-turn score is 148: 7×20 (seven sets of one in each slot) plus 2×4 (the two remaining discs in the four slot); if you do this in one or two sub-turns and get your extra disc(s) in the four slot, you could get 152 or 156 points.
- The player with the highest score wins.
Rules
- Once a disc has passed under the start bar, it is in play until the end of that sub-turn and must not be moved except if one of the following applies:
- A disc enters a slot other than through that slot’s arch (e.g. it jumps over the panel with the arches or it bounces from one slot into another).
- A disc leaves the board.
- A disc leaves a slot other than through the slot’s arch.
- A disc returns under the start bar.
- In any of the cases described above, the disc is removed from play and set aside. The player must not play that disc again in the current sub-turn, but can use it again in subsequent sub-turns.
- If you’re lucky/skilful enough to get maximum points with 30 discs (148) in just one or two sub-turns, you get one disc back for each sub-turn you didn’t use, and can play those again.
Tips
- Go easy! If you slide the discs too hard, they will come back at you and lie awkwardly or go out of play.
- Remember there is an incentive to go for the lower scoring slots because of the double score for one disc in each slot.
