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KonaneKonane is an ancient two player strategy board game from Hawaii. Before contact with Europeans, the game was played using small pieces of white coral and black lava on a large carved rock which doubled as both board and table. The Pu'uhonua o H'naunau National Historical Park features one of these ancient stone game boards. Konane is sometimes called "Hawaiian Checkers," but aside from jumping captures, there is almost no resemblance. Konane does have

But reference to the game survive

there are variations in how the game might be played

Thereafter

Deploy your warships to the battle coordinates

The two player's pieces start aligned like a typical abstract strategy game and move along the lines orthogonally like one would expect

a new version was developed (in Prussia) which used a much larger board with more pieces

but the losers are consigned to the graveyard

but there are no captures in Picaria

Grasshopper is an English game first published in the mid-1800s

or to a corner space of the board

and players may send opposing pieces back to the start if they end their movement on the same space

Considered the "grandfather of backgammon