Serauqs is played on a 4×4 board with the following setup:

As a first move players must promote one of their to a .

After that they take turn to move a or one step in any direction to an empty square.

They then immediately win if their units - optionally also including the opponent - form any of these patterns:

• occupy all four corners
• occupy all four central squares
• have four units in a line, including diagonals but excluding starting row