Gogol is played on a 8×8 board with the following setup:

For the first turn both players will deploy a to any board square (that doesn't make a forbidden pattern, see below).

Players then take turn to move or jump with one of their units.

• A moves to any free square
• A moves like a chess queen to a free square

Both and can instead jump over an adjacent enemy to a free square behind it in order to capture it.

There are two win conditions:

• infiltration: Get your to the opponent base
• regicide: Kill the opponent

Players may never make any of the 3 forbidden patterns:

From left to right:

• next to friendly inside home base
• in front of home base with 3 friendly behind
• on left/right board edge next to friendly in same column