Description

The game board in Anacund is composed of 17 wooden slats; fifteen of these slats have an ideogram at either end, with these ideograms representing the numbers 1-6. Shuffle these slats, then place them in a row, then place the remaining two slats (each with three ideograms) on either end to create a single path of 36 spaces. One of these spaces is colored red and dubbed the "bonus square". Each player takes 18 of the double-sided tokens, then places them in three groups of six, with their color face up.

On a turn, you must place three of your tokens on the game board. The space that you place a token on must equal the number of tokens in the group before you placed that token. Thus, at the start of the game, you take a token from a group of six tokens, then place that token on a 6 space. Your next token must be placed on a 5 (if taken from the same group) or a 6 (if taken from one of your remaining two groups).

If after placing a token, you have sandwiched one or more of the opponent's tokens, those opposing tokens are flipped over and placed next to the spaces they once occupied. These spaces cannot be played in again. If you would create a sandwich with yourself in the middle, then your own pieces are captured — unless you have simultaneously sandwiched the opponent at the same time, in which case you capture them instead.

Once all the pieces have been placed, players tally their scores. Each piece showing your color, whether on the board or next to it, is worth 1 point; whoever has a piece on or next to the bonus space scores 5 points. Whoever has the higher score wins.