1. Peralikatuma is played on a grid with a triangle off each end. Lines indicate permitted moves.

2. Each player selects 23 BEADs the colour of their choice.

3. BEADs are placed on every intersection starting from the player’s side, leaving only the three intersection in the middle row empty.

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

1. In turns, each player moves a BEAD 1 space forward, or to the left or right. BEADs cannot move backwards.

2. Players capture BEADs by jumping over an opponent’s BEAD and landing on an empty point, captures can be a backward move.

3. If available, a capture must be made.

4. Captures must be chained together if, upon jumping over an opponent’s BEAD and capturing it, the player is adjacent to an opponent’s BEAD with an empty space beyond.

5. Captured BEADs are removed from the board.

To win the game, a player needs to capture all their opponent's BEADs.

1. Peralikatuma is a two-player abstract strategy board game originating from Sri Lanka. It is a game closely related to Draughts and Alquerque as players hop over one another's pieces when capturing them. But its actual closest relatives are Sixteen Soldiers and Kotu Ellima which are also games coming from the Indian Subcontinent.

2. All three of these similar games use the same board which consists of an Alquerque board, and attached on each of its four sides is a triangular patterned board. The only difference between the three games is in the number of pieces. In Sixteen Soldiers, each player has 16 pieces hence the name of the game. In Peralikatuma, each player has 23 pieces. In Kotu Ellima, each player has 24 pieces.

3. The game is also related to Terhuchu from northeast India, and Permainan-Tabal from Indonesia.