Each player starts with 10 real marbles resting in the point of a star. The object is for each of you to move your marbles across the board until they're all placed in the opposite point. Simple enough? The fun is to develop a strategy that will let y move more than one space at a time and develop jumping stations. But, alas, your opposing player can make use of the same strategy. Game comes with a wooden board and 60 marbles.