A team wins if it gets 4 men in a row, either horizontally or vertically or diagonally. There are no stalemates, a team without move is forced to pass. In the beginning the five white and five black men are off the board. In each turn a player may either drop a new man or move a man on the board. All men move clockwise in single steps. The game is a relative to "Rock around the Sun" which is also available under Zillions. The difference is that in "Old Man" dropping and moving of pieces may happen in arbitrary order.
 
The big picture in the board has no meaning for the game itself. It shows the standard position from the "Lasker System in Queen's Gambit Declined". When you click on "Switch Piece Set", other pictures show up, on Lasker's games "Lasca" and "Lasker Morris". Dr. Emanuel Lasker was a very broad genius. He was Chess World Champion from 1894 to 1921. He made a doctor in pure mathematics. He was a creative philosopher. He invented several new games. He wrote the great book "Brettspiele der Voelker" (title translated to English: board games of the people).
 
Thanks to the Lasker-Society, Berlin, for providing the photos! Visit http://www.lasker-gesellschaft.de/.