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Plakoto setup — starting position

  • Mahbusa
  • Плакото
  • Πλακωτό
  • Тапа
  • المحبوسة

All fifteen checkers on point 24, the mother point. Nothing else is on the board at the start: your opponent stacks their fifteen on their own mother point opposite.

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The setup in five pictures
  • Point 1: 15 × Black
  • Point 24: 15 × White
  • Pips White: 360
  • Pips Black: 360
The starting position.

Plakoto starts as simply as a board can: all fifteen of a player's checkers on one single point. Only the first roll spreads them out.

Step by step

  1. All fifteen checkers on point 24 — the mother point, the farthest point of your own track.

Your opponent builds on their own mother point, directly opposite, and the two sides run against each other. There is no bar: a checker that is caught does not leave the board, it is pinned where it stands until the checker on top of it moves away. That is what makes the mother point the most important point of the game — at the start, everything you have is on it.