DAM box, front
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DAM

Take as many as you can. You must.

The draughts board at the cabin, with the missing piece replaced by a coin. DAM plays the game the way Scandinavia knows it, by the international rules on 8 × 8: men take backwards too, kings fly the whole diagonal, and you must take the most you can. Your phone lights only the moves the rules allow. When there's a capture, that's all it shows.

1–2 playersStrategyPhones join inFlying kings
Pre-order FlatboyTwelve men a side, and you must take the most.
The walnut FLATBOY table from above

The long take.

Light against dark on a wooden board. Every move is traced square by square in gold, so a long game reads like a story, and kings wear a crown that faces their owner.

Jumpforwards or backwards
Flya king down the whole diagonal
Takethe most. You must.

Real gameplay, straight off the table's screen.

Men take backwards. Kings fly.

Twelve men each on the dark squares, and light moves first. A man steps one square forward on the diagonal, but he captures both ways, forwards and backwards, jumping an enemy piece to the empty square beyond.

End a move on the far row and he's crowned. A king flies: any distance along a diagonal, taking a piece anywhere on it, landing beyond and carrying on. Capturing is compulsory, and you must play the sequence that takes the most.

DAM, straight off the screen

Three ways to play.

Tonight

Face to face

Two phones, one at each end, light against dark. Light moves first, whoever took it.

On your own

Against the computer

On your own, play the computer.

Pass it round

One phone

Two people can share one phone, passed across the table. When the turn changes hands, the glass says GI MOBILEN TIL … (pass the phone to …).

12men a side
32dark squares in play
50moves each, then a draw
3times the same position, a draw