Method of playing a game in which playing pieces are inverted

A method of playing a board game, comprising the steps of,

• providing a flat, two dimensional game surface means having peripheral boundaries defined in the marginal edges thereof,
• subdividing said game surface means into a plurality of two dimensional position defining regions,
• providing a plurality of game piece means divided into at least two different groups and provided with coding means so that the separate groups of game piece means are readily distinguishable by sensory inspection thereof,
• initially deploying said groups of game piece means upon said game surface means so that each game piece means is deployed upon a different one of said position defining regions,
• moving a preselected one of said game piece means from an occupied position defining region to any contiguous unoccupied region to complete a move, the players of said game alternating with one another in the making of said moves,
• allotting to each player a total of two moves per player turn, which two moves are taken as two consecutive moves of a single game piece means or as a single move of two game piece means belonging to said player,
• jumping an opponent's game piece means when said opponent's game piece means occupies a position defining region contiguous to that of one's game piece means and when said opponent's game piece means is intermediate an unoccupied position defining region and the region occupied by one's piece,
• jumping one's own game piece menas when one's game piece means to be jumped is intermediate an unoccupied position defining region and one's game piece means to be moved,
• deducting one move from one's total of two moves for each jumping of one's own game piece means,
• not deducting a move from one's total of two moves for each jumping of an opponent's game piece means,
• inverting said opponent's game piece means attendant jumping thereof to indicate a first jump of such opponent's game piece means, whereby said opponent's inverted game piece means remains in the possession of said opponent and remains on said game surface,
• and playing said game at least in part by moving said game piece means beyond the peripheral boundaries of said game surface means and returning said game piece means to said game surface means by crossing a peripheral boundary thereof that is oppositely disposed to the boundary across which a game piece means exited said game surface means.