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On your turn, you must perform these two actions in order:

**Play a Card:** Choose one card from your hand and place it face-up on your side of any Stone that doesn't yet have three cards on your side. Once a card is placed, it cannot be moved.
**Draw a Card:** Draw the top card of the deck to replenish your hand. If the deck is empty, you continue playing without drawing cards.

After you play a card but **before** you draw a new one, you may claim one or more Stones.
To claim a Stone, your three-card combination (formation) on that Stone must be stronger than your opponent's.
Generally, a Stone can only be claimed once a player has placed all three of their cards for that Stone.
You can, however, claim a Stone even if your opponent has not yet played all three cards, but only if you can **prove** they cannot possibly form a stronger combination. This proof must be based only on cards already played on the table (your own hand does not count as proof).
When you successfully claim a Stone, move it to your side of the border. No more cards may be played on this Stone.

Combinations of cards are called formations. They are ranked from strongest to weakest:

**Color-Run:** Three cards of the same color with consecutive strengths (e.g., a red 7, red 8, and red 9).
**Three of a Kind:** Three cards of the same strength (e.g., a 4, a 4, and a 4).
**Color:** Three cards of the same color (e.g., three green cards).
**Run:** Three cards with consecutive strengths of any color (e.g., a blue 5, a red 6, and a yellow 7).
**Sum:** Any other combination of three cards.

If two competing formations are of the same type (e.g., both are a "Color"), the one with the **highest total strength** (the sum of the card values) wins.
If the strength totals are also tied, the player who played their third card to the Stone **first** wins the Stone.

The game ends immediately when a player achieves either of the following victory conditions:

The first player to achieve one of these conditions wins the game.

For multi-round play:

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 Combinations of cards are called formations. They are ranked from strongest to weakest:
-# **Color-Run:** Three cards of the **same color** with **consecutive** strengths (e.g., a red 7, red 8, and red 9).
+# **Color-Run:** Three cards of the same color with consecutive strengths (e.g., a red 7, red 8, and red 9).
-# **Three of a Kind:** Three cards of the **same strength** (e.g., a 4, a 4, and a 4).
+# **Three of a Kind:** Three cards of the same strength (e.g., a 4, a 4, and a 4).
-# **Color:** Three cards of the **same color** (e.g., three green cards).
+# **Color:** Three cards of the same color (e.g., three green cards).
-# **Run:** Three cards with **consecutive** strengths of any color (e.g., a blue 5, a red 6, and a yellow 7).
+# **Run:** Three cards with consecutive strengths of any color (e.g., a blue 5, a red 6, and a yellow 7).
 # **Sum:** Any other combination of three cards.