À l'abordage 2004

The goal is to place six of his balls in the opposing camp.

Each player has colored balls (yellow or red) on the game board, each place 6 balls out of 6 boxes left his ship. At each turn, player rolls two dice, each dice has faces marked 1 to 4, and 2-sided "star". The player advances the ball three number indicated by the dice. If the two sides shows "star", the player turns the tray mechanism which will bring up the holes on some boxes are player is able to move there. Arriving on a square occupied by an opponent, the player takes the ball and place it in its hold.

The winner is the one who places his first 6 balls in the opposing ship.