Philosopher's Football (aka Phutball) was invented by John Conway and described in 'Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays' by E.R.Berlekamp, J.H.Conway and R.K.Guy (Academic Press Inc., ISBN: 0120911027).

The object of the game is to move the football to (or past) your goal line (the first player's goal is at the top) by jumping over lines of men.
On each turn you may either place a man or move the football. The football jumps lines of adjacent men which are then removed from the board. If after jumping a line of men, the football lands next to another line of men, it may jump them as well, however this is not mandatory.

Phutball can be easily handicapped by adjusting the starting position of the football.

Please note: it's not recommended to play against the computer (unless you're easily amused), but Zillions of Games does make it easy to play against another person using Net-play.

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