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Jump over the AI's pieces to capture them. Crown a king at the far row.
An 8×8 board with 12 black pieces (you) on the bottom and 12 white (AI) on top. Black moves first.
Tap one of your pieces to select it — its legal moves light up. Tap a highlighted square to move. Regular pieces move diagonally forward by one square.
If there's a capture available anywhere on the board, you must take it: jump diagonally over an enemy piece to an empty square. The jumped piece is removed. After a capture, if another capture is possible from the new square, you must continue the chain.
When a piece reaches the opposite far row, it becomes a King (marked with ♛) and can move and capture both forward and backward.
Win a round by capturing all of the AI's pieces or leaving the AI with no legal moves.
Winning adds 1 to your streak; losing ends the game; a stalemate keeps your streak. The AI searches deeper as your streak grows, so it keeps getting tougher.
Goal: longest winning streak.
Forced captures cut both ways, and good play uses them as bait. Because you must take a jump when one is offered, you can deliberately leave a piece where the AI is compelled to capture it — only to set up a multi-jump that wins back two or three of its pieces in return. Always check what your move forces the opponent to do next, not just what it gains right now.
Keep your back row intact as long as you can, since those pieces guard against the AI crowning a king, and push toward the far row yourself because a king's ability to move backward is decisive in the endgame. Advance your pieces in connected groups rather than lone runners that get picked off, and control the centre, where a piece threatens more squares. When ahead on material, trade pieces freely to simplify; when behind, avoid trades and look for a forced multi-capture to claw back even.