1. Dablot Prejjesne is played on a 5-by-6 board with 72 intersections. Lines indicate permitted moves.

2. Each player selects 28 BEADs the colour of their choice; their worker BEADs, 1 BEAD of a second colour; their Prince BEAD, and 1 BEAD of a third colour; their King BEAD.

3. The 28 worker BEADS are placed on every point of the 3 rows closets to the player.

4. The King BEAD is placed on the far right of the fourth row and the Prince BEAD is placed on the right-most point between the third and fourth rows.

5. Players decide who begins the game by rolling a die.

1. In turns, each player moves 1 BEAD along the marked lines to an adjacent empty point.

2. Players capture BEADs by jumping over an opponent’s BEAD and landing on an empty point beyond it, following the lines on the board.

3. Captures can be chained together if, upon jumping over an opponent’s BEAD and capturing it, the player is adjacent to another BEAD with an empty point beyond it.

4. Players do not have to make a capture move if they do not want to.

5. Players can only capture a BEAD of the same type or a lower rank. Workers can only capture another worker BEAD.

6. A Prince BEAD can capture both workers and their opponent’s Prince BEAD. A player can use their King BEAD can capture any of their opponent’s BEADs.

7. Captured BEADs are removed from the board.

1. To win the game, a player must capture all their opponent's BEADs or form a position so that their opponent is unable to move.

2. A draw occurs when only the King BEADs are left.

1. Dablot prejjesne is a Sami game from the 19th century. It depicts historical struggles between nomadic Sami warriors and Finnish settlers farming the land. One side has a king, prince and warriors, while the other has a landlord, his son and tenant farmers.

2. The Sami people from Lapland have been quite inventive over the centuries when it comes to board games. An example of this is dablot prejjesne, which has some resemblances to other games, but is still totally original.

3. This game has been in existence since at least 1892, when appeared in a museum catalogue in Stockholm. However, it took until 1973 before it was introduced to English-speaking people by the well known game historian R. C. Bell.