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<div>== Game play ==<br />
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* Each player alternately places a ball from their reserve into any hollow which they have chosen.<br />
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==== Stacking on a square ====<br />
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When one or more 2x2 squares of balls are formed on the board or at higher levels, a player can choose to stack one of their balls on it.<br />
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When it is their turn to play, they then have a choice between:<br />
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*1. Taking a ball from their reserve and placing it on the board,<br />
*2. Placing a ball from their reserve on one of the squares of balls,<br />
*3. Moving one of their balls already on the board and putting it on a square of balls, but only if this move raises their ball by one or more levels. (This move enables them to save a ball in their reserve. A ball on the board cannot be moved if it is already supporting another balls.)<br />
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The third level of balls hides the first level of balls beneath them.<br />
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Select a ball on the third level to see a ball that is hidden on the first level.<br />
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==== Square in the player's own colour ====<br />
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A player who makes a 2x2 square of balls in their own colour immediately takes back either one or two of their balls from the board and puts them back in their reserve.<br />
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They may recover any ball belonging to them by picking them up from any level of the pyramid - including the one which they have just placed - except for those balls that support other balls.<br />
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''Note:'' Making several 2x2 squares of balls in their own colour by putting on one ball only allows the player to withdraw one or two of their balls.<br />
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== Game End ==<br />
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The winner is the one who places their last ball at the top of the pyramid.<br />
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A player immediately loses the game if they have no move. (''i.e. can't move up their ball on the board and their reserve of balls is empty.'')<br />
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== BGA variants ==<br />
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==== Square ====<br />
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These are the rules given above.<br />
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==== Children====<br />
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To start gradually, it is possible to play without using the rules for the "square in the player's own colour" - only the rules for stacking allow the players to save balls.<br />
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==== Advanced ====<br />
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A player takes back one or two of their balls which are on the board when they make a 2x2 square or a line in their colour.<br />
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To be valid, alignments must be on either the first or the second level. An alignment consists of:<br />
*... 4 balls of the same colour in line on the first level, or<br />
*... 3 balls of the same colour in line on the second level.<br />
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A diagonal line is not an alignment.<br />
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No more than two balls can be taken back per shot.</div>Mattbru