Patolli

How to play

The great gambling game of the Aztecs, run on a cross-shaped track between four flower-marked safe squares. Cast the five marked beans and race your two markers a full lap of the cross toward home.

Rules

  • Press Cast beans to throw five two-sided beans; the number of marked faces up is your move (0 up counts as a cast of 6).
  • Tap a highlighted marker to advance it that many cells around the cross.
  • Land squarely on an AI marker to knock it all the way back to its own start — unless it's sitting on a ✻ flower square, which is a safe haven.
  • Bring both of your markers all the way home to win; the AI wins if it gets both of its markers home first.

Tips

Park a marker on a ✻ flower square when you can — it can't be knocked back from there. And keep an eye on the AI's markers just ahead of yours: the right cast lets you land on one and send it all the way back to the start.