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on the far left side, the "out" section. The coloured field just left of centre, marked "A", is each player's "start" field. The white field just to the right of the start field leads to the "home" row, marked "a", "b", "c", "d". Each game piece enters the circle at the "start" field ("A"), moves (clockwise) over the board and finally enters the "home" row. The first player with all of their pieces in their "home" row wins the game.
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pegs cannot reside on the same circle. Once inside of the "home" area, pegs cannot jump over other pegs and an exact roll of the dice is required to move inside of the home area. Your peg can only move into the home of the same color. (i.e. You cannot go into somebody else's home and kick their pegs out.) A worst case scenario for entering home is depicted in the image here:
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Throwing a six means bringing a piece into the game (by placing one from the "out" ("B") area onto the "start" or "A" field) and throwing the die again. If a piece is on the "A" field and there are still pieces in the "out" area, it must be moved as soon as possible. If a piece cannot be brought into
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Huckepack. The original board game consisted of painted wooden pegs, but sometime after the 1960's, the wooden pegs were replaced with plastic colored pegs.
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the game then any other piece in the game must be moved by the thrown number, if that is possible. A commonly played variation allows a player who has no pieces in the circle of fields to have three tries to throw a six.
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