Method for playing a three dimensional board game

A method of playing a board game by first and second players, comprising the steps of:

• (a) providing a game board marked into a pattern of spaces forming a pattern of concentric perimeters, extending from an outermost perimeter to an innermost perimeter, the innermost perimeter surrounding a central space, each perimeter comprising a plurality of contiguous spaces, at least one space of which is distinctively marked as a jumping space;
• (b) providing a first plurality of movable pieces for movement on the board by the first player from starting positions in spaces on the outermost perimeter toward the central space;
• (c) providing a second plurality of movable pieces for movement on the board by the second player from starting positions in spaces on the outermost perimeter toward the central space;
• (d) moving a piece selected alternately from the first and second pluralities in accordance with a predetermined set of rules toward the central space;
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• (e) repeating the moving step until all of the pieces of one of the pluralities are moved to the central space;
• wherein the moving step comprises the steps of:
• (d)(1) moving a piece selected alternately from the first and second pluralities only along a single perimeter until it lands on either (i) a jumping space, or (ii) a space immediately adjacent a space occupied by a stationary piece;
• (d)(2) when the selected piece lands on a jumping space, moving the selected piece to the immediately adjacent space on the next innermost perimeter, unless the latter space is occupied by another piece;
• (d)(3) when the selected piece lands on a space immediately adjacent a stationary piece on the next innermost perimeter, jumping the selected piece over the stationary piece to the space on the opposite side of the stationary piece on the perimeter next innermost from the stationary piece, unless the latter space is occupied by another piece;
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• (d)(4) when the selected piece lands on a space immediately adjacent to a stationary piece on the same perimeter, jumping the selected piece over the stationary piece to the space on the opposite side of the stationary piece on the same perimeter, unless the latter space is occupied by another piece;
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• wherein the set of rules includes a first rule that a piece in either plurality of pieces may not be moved from one perimeter to a perimeter that is farther away from the central space unless it is a piece that is jumped over by another piece that is not in the same plurality of pieces, and a second rule that a stationary piece that is jumped over by the selected piece remains in play on the game board.