1. Choose a game board. You can create your own game board using a grid of Squares or you can use a game board that has already been created.
2. Place two AVOIDer pieces on the board, one for each player.
3. Decide who will go first.
4. On each Turn, the active player must move one AVOIDer piece Up, down, left, or right one space, but cannot move onto a Square that is already occUpied by an AVOIDer piece.
5. The AIM of the game is for each player to AVOID having their AVOIDer piece captured by the other player.
6. If a player moves their AVOIDer piece onto a Square that is occUpied by the other player's AVOIDer piece, then the other player captures the piece and the game ends.
7. The player who captures the other player's AVOIDer piece is the winner.