Tigers and goats
Traditional
How to set-up
1. Tigers and Goats is played on a grid with 25 intersections. Lines indicate permitted moves.
2. One player selects 20 BEADs the colour of their choice, they are the goats and all BEADs start off the board.
3. One player selects 4 BEADs the colour of their choice, these are the tigers and are placed on the 4 corners of the board.
4. The player with the goats start.
How to play
1. The player with goat BEADs starts by placing a BEAD on an intersection.
2. In their turn, the tiger BEADs move to an adjacent intersection in any direction.
3. Once all the goat BEADs have been placed on the board, goat BEADs can move to an adjacent intersection in any direction.
4. A tiger BEAD can capture a goat BEAD by jumping over their opponent’s BEAD and landing on an empty point. Only 1 capture can be made per turn.
5. A goat BEAD cannot capture a tiger BEAD and cannot jump over another goat BEAD.
6. A tiger BEAD cannot jump over another tiger BEAD.
7. Captured BEADs are removed from the board.
How to win
1. To win the game, the tigers need to capture 15 goats.
2. To win the game, the goats must surround the tigers so that they cannot move or capture any goats.
History
1. Bagh-Chal also known as Tigers and goats is a strategic, two-player board game that originates in Nepal.
2. It is an abstract strategy game with an asymmetric setup. A different number of pieces per side.
3. The board bears a passing resemblance to a Chinese Chess board in that the pieces move along lines from intersection to intersection. However, the gameplay is more similar to Alquerque, Checkers or Draughts.
4. Bagh in Nepali means tiger, and chal means move, hence you could translate it as the Tiger Moving Game or Move the Tigers.