Play the basic one player beta demo game straight away by clicking on the image to the right to open a new browser tab. This demo version of The Strategy Game is called Goalscorer. To play the game so you can refer to the following Quick Rules as you play:

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• In the demo game you play with the white counters and you have the first turn. Computer plays with black.
   

• You need to score more goals than your computer opponent to win by capturing (landing on) its counters. Only your counters showing football shirts, called First Teamers, can capture your opponent’s counters.
   

• Your turn consists of 2 moves, a Youth Player move and a First Teamer move. The squares you can move to are shown in red in this demo game. Just click on the counter you want to move then click on the square you want to move it to.
   

•  Build a stronger team by getting your non-first teamer counters called Youth Players to any square on your opponent’s Goal Line to become First Teamers.
   

• A Youth Player’s first move as a First Teamer, called its First Team Debut Move, can have serious consequences for your opponent, and the move it can make depends on its number. You can bring on your Substitute instead if it has a better first team debut move.
   

• The Star Player on your team is the only counter without a number. Get your Star Player to your opponent’s Goal Line or capture you opponent’s Star Player and you score 2 goals and the game ends.
   

• You take a risk when capturing your opponent’s Youth Players as you can’t see their identities and their starting positions change in every game, but the same is true for your opponent. You could score a goal, or two goals if you capture your opponent’s Star Player. The counter you capture could also result in an Offside (not good) or Penalty (even worse). Play the demo game and see what happens.