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Bagh bandi is a two-player abstract strategy board game from Lower Bengal, India. It is a hunt game. It uses an alquerque board, and therefore, Bagh bandi is specifically a tiger hunt game (or tiger game). There are two tigers attempting to elude and capture as many goats while the goats are attempting to surround and trap the tigers.
Game board for len choa, a leopard hunt game. Len choa is a two-player abstract strategy game from southern Thailand (formerly called Siam), first documented by Captain James Low in 1839. It is a Leopard hunt game (or Leopard game). One tiger is going up against six leopards.
Adugo is specifically a tiger hunt game (or tiger game). Komikan may be the same game as adugo. Komikan is the name given by the Mapuches in Chile. In adugo, the jaguar ("adugo", in Bororo's language) is hunting the dogs ("arikau"). [1] [8] [10] [11] [12] The game is also known as jaguar and dogs.
Rimau-rimau is specifically part of the tiger hunt game family (or tiger game family) since its board consists in part of an alquerque board. In contrast, leopard games are also hunt games, but use a more triangular-patterned board and not an alquerque-based board. Fox games are also hunt games, but use a patterned board that resembles a cross.
The game resembles Khla si ko and Tiger and Buffaloes in that it is a hunt game that uses a 4 x 4 board. It especially resembles Khla si ko in that the 4 x 4 board is specifically a 4 x 4 square board where game pieces are placed within the squares; moreover, there are 4 tigers versus 12 oxen, and that the opening setup has the tigers on the ...
Rimau is a hunt game, specifically a tiger hunt game (or tiger game); this family of hunt games uses an alquerque board or a variant thereof, including games like rimau-rimau, bagh-chal ("tigers and goats" in Nepali), and main tapal empat. In contrast, leopard hunt games use a more triangular board and not an alquerque-based board.
The games are usually played on a triangular board with three horizontal parallel lines (including the triangle's base) intersecting the other two sides of the triangle and a vertical bisector. Though a number of variants exist, the basic principle of the game sees one player with a single piece (the hunter) and the other playing six or seven ...
The game has also been known as hot buttered beans in the US since at least 1830, [3] and other names for it include hide the object and hide the key. William Wells Newell described a version called thimble in sight in his 1883 Games and Songs of American Children. The game is known in various European countries. It is called cache-tampon in ...