I was usual to play chess with 2 friends of mine while we were waiting for the others, most of the time late as every good Italian, before going out in the evening. The bad thing was that we were often 3 people so every time one had to stay watching. So I thought: it’s such a pity that we can’t play something relaxing all together.
And then the “New games” course began… I started from the basic idea to have a board game, maybe even a portable (why not?) one, with a flexible number of involved players. 

The first trial version was for 2 or 4 people, based on easy rules: each player has balls (of one or two colours depending if there are 2 or 4 players), to grab the ball of someone else it‘s necessary to jump over it. More or less like the Chinese solitary but with more than one player. 
Then trials went on and on changing rules, the shape of the chessboard and the number of players involved. But every time the problem was that the number of players didn’t allow big variations.
Finally I found the way to manage it; the balls needed to be classified by means of three different characteristics, this allowed players to be any number from 2 to 6.

With two different background colours, the possibility to have stains or not and with two different stain colours; balls can be easily grouped by each of these characteristics. This implied to have little variations to rules depending on the players number. So I thought that it would have been cool to have different versions of the game according to participants amount.

Finally some more variations to the chessboard‘s shape and to the cover in order to make possible the separate storage of balls taken by different players and a “New game“ was ready!