Abstract: Apparatus for playing a game which apparatus comprises a playing surface having marked thereon a plurality of unit areas aligned in three intersecting mutually inclined sets of parallel lines to form a triangular lattice array with the unit areas being spaced apart from each other, in which a first set of unit areas constituted by unit areas separated from each other by two unit areas in each of said lines is distinguished from the remaining unit areas, and at least two distinguishable sets of playing pieces each adapted to be moved over the playing surface from one unit area to another.