No.347
Bagh Chal
Japanese name: バグチャル
You can scroll an enlarged diagram from side to side. Press again to return to its original size.
Diagram key
- A
- Start with 4 tigers at the corners.
- B
- Keep all 20 goats outside the board at first. Place them on the board during play.
- C
- Move to an adjacent point connected by a line.
- D
- Jump in a straight line to capture.
Materials
- A bagh-chal board
- 4 tiger counters
- 20 goat counters
How to play
- Place tigers at the four corners and keep goats off the board. Choose the tiger and goat players. Alternate one move each, with goats starting.
- Place one goat on an empty intersection per turn. Goats already on the board cannot move until all twenty have been placed. Captured goats are not replaced.
- Move one tiger along a line to an adjacent empty point, or jump straight over one adjacent goat to the empty point immediately beyond, removing that goat.
- After all goats have been placed, they too move one at a time along a line to an adjacent empty point. Neither side may jump its own counters. Goats cannot capture tigers.
- Tigers win by capturing five goats; goats win by blocking all four tigers. A goat side with no legal move, or the same position with the same player to move occurring three times, is a draw. Swap roles.
Ways to adapt
Introduction: discuss moves openly. Older primary and adults: individual play.