(This is adapted from Portal Field by "Hempuli".)
Bridges is a two player game played in Chayakku, of unknown origin. It is played on an 8x8 board of octagonal spaces, usually marked out by diamond-shaped copper rivets hammered into a painted wooded board. Each player starts with four pawns in the middle squares of their back two rows. The pawns themselves are often fantastically shaped but in the rules they function the same. Each player has four hexagonal pieces (called bridges) marked with plus-shaped designs that fit nestled into a spot covering a space.
It is played in turns. The first player's first turn is one move are two moves. In a move a player may move a pawn up to two spaces in a straight line, horizontally or diagonally. This move cannot pass through or land on any piece except in one case: the piece may land on an opponent's pawn and push that pawn back one space, if that space is empty.
At the end of the players turn, they must place a bridge on an empty spot on the board. These are never moved.
The bridges have an orientation. Along the indicated directions, pieces that move into them must continue to the space on the other side. When entered from the other directions, the space is normal; a piece on a bridge is ignored by pieces passing through it.
Whenever a piece has two or more orthogonally adjacent enemy pieces, that piece is captured and removed from the board. Exception: pawns on bridges are immune to capture this way.
When one player has captured four of the opponent's pieces they win the game immediately.
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