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2
players at a time can play Tigers and Goats .
This is a tough and challenging strategy game also known as an uneven
game.
Tigers
and Goats
Also
known as Bagha Chal, it is the national game of Nepal.
The
game is played on a 5 by 5 grid with 4 tigers and 20 goats. See the
picture above, the tigers are represented in our version of the game
with tiger colored marbles and the goats are represented with the
white ones.
There
are two stages to the game.
At
the start of the game, the four tigers are placed in the corners of
the board and the 20 goats are placed to one side. The goats start
by placing one goat on the board anywhere and alternating turns with
the tiger player. During the first phase of the game, goats cannot
be moved once placed on the board until all the goats have been placed
on the board.
The
tigers must capture five goats or immobilize the goats so they cannot
move.
The
goats can only win by immobilizing the tigers.
In
the first stage, the goats are placed on the board one at a time alternating
with tiger moves.
The
goat player cannot move any goats, during the first phase. The goat
player is always to place goats until this phase is over. That means
that if a goat is being threatened by a tiger the only way the goat
player can save the goat is by placing another goat so that the tiger
player cannot jump "or eat" the goat.
In
the second phase, the pieces move from space to space along the lines
in any direction. The tiger player has two possible types of move.
They can move or they can "eat" a goat. To eat a goat, a
tiger must be able to jump over the goat. Tigers can only jump in
a straight line. More than one goat may be "eaten" during
a move by the tiger as long as it is in a straight line. Goats defend
against being "eaten" by having no open places for tigers
to land on the other side
In
certain conditions it is possible to reach a stalemate where a goat
can move between two places to keep from being captured or immobilized.
In any event, a goat player cannot move a goat into and out of the
same position more than two times without moving another goat. .
The
game ends when a tiger has either eaten 5 goats, (during the first
or second phase of the game) leaving only 15 goats, or the goats or
tigers have been immobilized and a player cannot move, or a goat player
is out of options to move another piece where one goat has been moved
2 times already.
This
game comes with playing marbles as shown above, the plastic playing
board of our own design and instructions. These games can be washed.
