If one of the players gets out to a big lead, the game naturally closes the difference by giving the player that is behind several turns which they can use to help catch up. This is mostly due to how the game decides who gets the next turn. I see most games ending with the losing player only being one or two turns away from winning themselves. I think one of Yali’s biggest strengths is the fact that the ending will usually be really close. Since both players are likely going to be pretty close to one another at the end of the game, the right move at the right time could be the difference between winning or losing the game. While the game is pretty simple each move could have a pretty big impact on the game. The game is so simple to pick up because all you do on a turn is move one of your marbles forward a space or jump over a marble to the next unoccupied space. The game has a recommended age of 8+ and that seems appropriate since I think kids slightly younger might also be able to play the game even if they don’t fully understand the strategy. Yali is a pretty straight to the point game. If you could find a way to do this where the other player couldn’t capitalize on it, it could really help your chances in the game.įor an abstract game I would say that Yali has a moderate amount of strategy. The one catch is that your opponent could likely do the same thing. If you could create a ladder of jumps from your side to the other side of the board you could quickly move your marbles across the board. Jumping can really help you since you can gain a couple of spaces that you otherwise wouldn’t have gotten before the board swung towards the other player. The other main strategy in the game involves trying to take advantage of jumps as often as possible. By keeping the rest of your marbles in their starting spaces this should weigh down your side of the board making it easier to move to the other side of the board. While I haven’t personally tried this, I am curious how only moving one marble at a time to the other side of the board would work. This leads to a couple different strategies that players can utilize. Players need to find the right balance between advancing their marbles towards the other side of the board while also maintaining control of the board. This actually leads to quite a bit of the strategy in the game. Players ultimately want to move their pieces to the other side of the board but they don’t want to do it too quickly since it will put too much weight on the other side of the board giving the other player more turns. By making the turn order depend on which side of the gameboard is down, it forces players to factor in how each move will impact the balance of the gameboard.
On the surface this might not seem like much but it is actually quite clever. The one unique thing about Yali is the gameboard is placed on a pivot that swings back and forth to indicate which player gets to take the next turn. This mostly involves finding ways to jump over your own and your opponent’s marbles. Just like Chinese Checkers the goal of the game is to get your marbles to the other side of the gameboard before your opponent does the same. The games share so much in common that I would basically say that Yali is Chinese Checkers played on a seesaw. While the two games look quite a bit different I would say that Yali shares a lot in common with Chinese Checkers. If you get all three of your edge marbles as far to your side as possible, you can begin to move the other player’s edge marbles to your side of the gameboard.
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