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Lover's Leap
Making a Point
Men
Mother
Mutual Closing
No-Closing Game
Nothing Game
Outer Board or Table
Point
Prime
Prisoner



LOVER'S LEAP: The play of (6,5) executed by playing one of your back men to B12. This term is used only in hit.

MAKING A POINT: Occupying a position in a way that your opponent cannot land there. See also Block.

MEN: Another term denoting the pieces or the disks used in this game.

MOTHER: A plakoto term denoting the last piece of the starting position.

MUTUAL CLOSING: A moultezim game during which both players have made a prime.

NO-CLOSING GAME: A moultezim game during which no player has made a prime.

NOTHING GAME: A back game position under which the defender has been forced to burn his pieces.

OUTER BOARD OR TABLE: Your own seven through twelve positions.

POINT: A position on the board. This term is also used to denote a "made" point.

PRIME: Six consecutive made points.

PRISONER: A plakoto term used when one of your pieces comes to rest on an opponent's blots.

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