Kaooa

How to play

A hunt on a five-pointed star from India — seven crows against one vulture. You are the crows: place all seven, then move along the lines to surround the vulture. The vulture moves freely and leaps over a single crow to eat it.

Rules

  • Tap empty points to place your seven crows one at a time — the vulture enters after your first crow and moves between your placements.
  • Once all seven crows are placed, tap one of your crows, then a highlighted point to slide it one step along a line.
  • The vulture slides too, and can leap over any single adjacent crow into the empty point beyond it, eating that crow.
  • Pen the vulture so it has no legal move to win — but if it eats four of your crows, it wins.

Tips

Never place a crow next to the vulture if the point directly beyond is empty — that is a free meal. Fill those “landing” points first, then crowd the vulture toward a tip of the star, where it has only two lines out and is easiest to seal.