The game is played by two players, one with dark pieces and the other with clear pieces. Both start with the same number of pieces, equal to half the number of cells in the board minus one cell. Therefore, if the board has 25 cells, each player starts with 12 pieces. If the board has 49 cells, each player starts with 24 pieces. Some Seega boards have an X in the center cell. Similar to
Yoté, the Seega board starts empty, and players may place their pieces in the cells of their own choice. The game has two stages. In the first, the positioning stage, players place their pieces in the board cells, and cannot place any piece in the center cell. In each turn, each player places two pieces, until they have placed all their pieces. In the second stage, the moving stage, players move their pieces and capture their opponent's pieces. The first move of player 1 must be moving a piece to the center of the board. Pieces can be moved horizontally or vertically, never diagonally, and cannot jump over other pieces. To capture a piece, a player must move one of their pieces in such way as to "bound" an opponent piece in one way (either vertically or horizontally). That is, if moving a dark piece results in a clear piece having a dark piece to its right and to its left (that is, the piece that has just been moved and another one), the clear piece will be removed. Same thing happens if the clear piece has a dark piece below and above it. If a player places one of its pieces between two opponent's pieces, nothing happens: captures only occur when a player bounds the pieces of the opponent. After capturing an opponent's piece, the player can move again if that results in another capture.
Variants There are many rules that describe what happen if a player can not move a piece. In one variant, the player can skip their turn, and their opponent plays again. In another, the player that can't make a move can make their opponent remove a piece that will allow the player to make a move. In another variant, it is player 2 that chooses which piece from player 1 will be removed. In some versions, the game is over when one player has only one piece left. In others, the game is only over when one player has lost their final piece. ==History==