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Game Introduction
Four in a Row is a connection based game very popular worldwide.
The players have to drop a disc in turns of their chosen color onto a vertical six-by-seven grid.

Game objective and rules
The objective of the game 4 in a Row (Connect four) is to connect four discs of the same color in any of the following three ways:

-Vertically
-Horizontally
-By diagonal

When a disc is placed, the only way to stop the formation of lines is with a disc of another color.

Connect 4 can be played in different variations. The number of pieces needed to make a line may vary. Some versions require a larger grid, which allows the connection of five or even six pieces.

There is a chance that not all games will end with a win for one of the players. If each cell in the grid fills up, and there are no four disks connected, the game ends without winners.

Introduction
At VIP Hokm you can play online the most popular and oldest table game for two players- Backgammon.

The Backgammon board is divided into 4 areas: two outside and two home boards. Each player has 1 outer and one home board, separated from each other by the board bar. Each area has 6 points (spaces). At the beginning of the game, each player starts with 15 checkers.

Game objective
The Backgammon objective is to move your checkers into your home board. The next point is to bear all checkers from the home board.

Gameplay
When the player’s turn comes he should move the pieces regarding the result of the dice.
The player can move a checker where his checkers are placed or there is only a single opponent’s checker. There are no restrictions on how exactly to move the checkers. It is allowed to make a single move with only one checker or to move different checkers if possible.

The single checkers of the opponent can be hit and returned to start again. For this purpose, the player needs to roll a number corresponding to any playable space in the opponent’s area.

When all checkers are already in the player’s home board then it is possible to start with the bearing off process of the game. The bearing of the checkers is regarding the dice results, which can be exact or bigger than the occupied point.

Game Winner
The player who bears first all his checkers is game-winner and his points depend on the following situations:

-If the opponent has “born off” at least one checker the winner scores 1 point.
In case when the losing player hasn’t “born off” the winner scores 2 points (called “Gammon”).
When the losing player hasn’t “born off” any pieces and also has at least one piece in the winner’s home board/or on the center bar, the winner gets 3 points,( known as a “Backgammon”).

Introduction of Dominoes game
Dominoes is the most known tile game and you can play it online at VIP Hokm.

The game can be played from 2 or 4 players. For 2 player games, each player receives 7 tiles. In the 4 player games, the players receive 5 tiles each. Dominoes game is played with total of 28 rectangular tiles and each one is divided in two parts. The parts have points (pips) from 0 to 6. The 28 tiles represent all possible combinations between the pips.

Gameplay and objective
Every player must place a tile with the pips corresponding already to the pips of the tiles ends situated on the table. When the player has no tile to match the tiles down, he picks from the box until he finds the suitable one.

Game winner
To win the game the player should finish first to place on the table his tiles before the rest of the players.
The winner scores the remaining pips of the opponents’ tiles extracting his own points if any.

Information
One of the most played card games is available now to play now at our multiplayer platform.

Hearts is played by 4 players in solo mode. For playing is used the standard french deck of 52 cards. The Ace is the strongest card and the 2 is the smallest one.

Objective and gameplay
The main goal is to have fewer possible points, avoiding to have tricks with any of the hearts cards and the Queen of Spades. Also one of the targets is to collect all hearts and the Queen of Spades. This combination is known a Shooting the Moon and the player obtains 0 points and the rest of the players 26 points. All hearts count for 1 point each and the Queen of Spades is 13 points.

In clockwise direction each player receives 13 cards and after he must discard 3 cards and later receives 3 other ones from another player. The player who has the 2 of Clubs starts the game. Players should follow the suite if they can. The highest card of the requested suite wins the trick. Finally, the player with fewest points wins the game.

Game information
Created many centuries ago in India nowadays Ludo is one of the top boarding games.

Ludo is played with a dice numbered from 1 to 6 and a square board divided into 4 colored parts. Each player obtains 4 ludo pieces (tokens).

Objective
The game objective is to have all 4 pieces in the final area of the board. For this purpose, each player must throw the dice and follow his colored column when moves the token.
The game can start only when a player rolls 6. If the player has already a piece in play than it is possible to move it depending on the dice result.

When token land on the opponent’s piece than the adversary token is sent back to its home area. There are some special safe spots where this rule does not apply.

When a player first passes all of his pieces to the final area then he is declared as a winner of the game.

Game Information

Mau Mau game is played from 2 to 4 players with a standard french deck of 32 cards.

Gameplay and objective

The main objective of the game is to finish the cards in your hands first before any other player.

At the beginning of the game, each player receives 5 cards. The remaining cards are placed face down in a pile. In a clockwise direction, the player just has to discard a card that is either the same value or the same color as the top card on the stack. If he cannot discard a suitable card, he must draw from the stack.

To win the game, the player must announce that he will discard his last card.

This happens through the statement “Mau”. If he does not do this, he will be punished with drawing 2 cards.

Some cards have special functions.

Jacks – Allows a player to call a new color
8 – The next player’s turn
9 – Reverses playback order (clockwise to counterclockwise or vice versa)
7 – The next player must draw 2 cards. If he answers with a 7, he no longer has to draw 2 cards. Instead, the player next to him must now draw 4 cards. This continues until the players run out of 7.

Information
One of the most famous matching card games Rummy is played with standard french deck cards. Normally it is played from 2 or 4 players and each one plays for its self.

Cards, rules, and objectives

To win the game players intent to terminate their cards before all opponents.

All 52 cards are in use and depending on what options are chosen the rules of Low Ace or High Ace are applied. Sequences:

-Low Ace: A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K
-High Ace: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, A

The face cards point value is 10
Ace is 1 point (Low Ace) or 15 points (High Ace)

When 4 players play there are dealt 7 cards each, for 2 player games each player obtains 10 cards. The remaining cards are forming the stock and the upper card of the stock is placed face up away creating the discard pile.

When the game starts the player draw cards from the pile or from the stock. Next the player may meld if he has a valid sequence of cards, lay off in case if somebody else melded on the table, or just discard a card.

Round winner is the one who reminds without cards.
The winner of the game is the player who scores first the agreed points.

Information

Yatzy is a well known and interesting dice game available to play online for 2,3 or 4 players.

The purpose of this game is to use five dice to roll different combinations and as a result, add a different number of points.

During the end of the game, It is important to make different combinations with high scores.

Gameplay and rules

Players can throw the 5 dice 3 times in their turn keeping the one which they prefer. The total rounds are 15 because there are 15 existing combinations.

The player with the highest score in his scorecard is the winner.

Score Card

Each combination has a different score:

• Ones – The sum of all die that rolled 1 (for example 1, 1, 3, 2, 4 => 2 points)
• Twos – The sum of all die that rolled 2 (for example 2, 2, 2, 5, 6 => 6 points)
• Threes – The sum of all die that rolled 3 (for example 3, 1, 2, 5, 5 => 3 points)
• Fours – The sum of all die that rolled 4 (for example 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 => 16 points)
• Fives – The sum of all die that rolled 5 (for example 5, 5, 3, 2, 6 => 10 points)
• Sixes – The sum of all die that rolled 6 (for example 6, 6, 6, 1, 3 => 18 points)
• One Pair – The sum of a pair of die (for example 2, 2, 3, 4, 5 => 4 points)
• Two Pairs – The sum of two pairs of four different die (for example 2, 2, 4, 4, 5 => 12 points)
• Three of a kind – The sum of three of the same die (for example 4, 4, 4, 1, 2 => 12 points)
• Four of a kind – The sum of four of the same die (for example 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 => 16 points)
• Full House – The sum of all five die (for example 2, 3, 3, 3, 2 => 13 points)
• Small Straight – 15 points (for example 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 => 15 points)
• Large Straight – 20 points (for example 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 => 20 points)
• Yahtzy – 50 points (for example 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 => 50 points)
• Chance – The sum of 5 random die (for example 3, 2, 4, 5, 2 => 16 points)