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The board is made up of 144 squares, each with either a number (the runs scored with that delivery) or a way of getting out. Each set of six squares is labelled with an over. You start in the first over and end with the 24th over. Players throw a die and move along the row labelled with the first over and check the result. Now the marker is moved back to the start of that over and a die is thrown again, and so on for six deliveries. Then it is the 2nd over, and so on. The publisher thought that it would be a good idea to say it was a game for more than the obvious two players. So three can play (two pair up against the other single player), or four (both teams consist of a pair of players) or five players (two teams of two players and the fifth player just acts as scorer and he gets to shout "Over" at the end of each six deliveries.