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STRATEGO
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Junior
Stratego Junior is an exciting board game for two players, ages five and up. The object of
the game is to capture your opponent’s flag. This is not as easy as it sounds because you
don’t know where it is! The flag is hidden from view, as are all the other Stratego pieces.
In fact, at the beginning of the game, you don’t know what any of the playing pieces are.
But you will need to find out quickly if you want to capture the flag from your opponent.
But how do you do this? Read on and find out!
In the box you will find:
A playing board, one large dice, 16 small red castles, 3 big red castles, a cardboard sheet
with 19 pictures with a red edge, 16 small blue castles, 3 big blue castles, a cardboard sheet
with 19 pictures with a blue edge.
If you’re playing for the first time:
Be careful to follow these instructions! You will need to put all 19 pictures with the red
edge in the red castles. Refer to the drawing to see how to do this (I). Make sure that you put
the flag, the robber baron and the jester in the three big castles.
The flag The robber baron The jester
Place the remaining 16 pictures in the small castles. Once you have done this, you will of
course need to follow the same steps for the blue pictures.
Now you’re ready to play!
Setting up:
Throw the dice to see who plays red and who plays blue. The playing board should be
placed between you, with the red player on the red side and the blue player on the blue side.
The three big castles are put on the three spaces at the back, and the 16 small castles go on
the 16 spaces in front. Put all the pieces on the board so that the picture-sides face you and
that your opponent can’t see what they are. Look at the photograph on the bottom of the
Stratego Junior box — this is how it should look like once the castles have been set up.
How to play:
Red always starts first. Throw the dice. Now turn around one of your opponent’s castles in
the front row. If the picture on the castle matches that on the dice, then you’ve captured this
castle and you can remove it from the board. If the picture is different, then you have to turn
the piece around again. But remember the picture, because the next time you throw the dice
and get this picture, you can turn this piece around and capture it! On each turn you are
only allowed to roll the dice once and turn around one castle. Then it is the opponent’s turn.
Attacking Castles:
You can’t just attack any castle on the board, but only those that your pieces can reach
without going through another piece. At the beginning, you will have a choice of the first
four castles (II), but once you’ve captured one of these, you can also attack one of the
castles in the second row.
