game suggestion: bagha chal(moving tigers) (~LabelCancelled~)

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1. Gnome,

Hello. I came across this traditional game popular in Nepal, and I thought it'd be nice to suggest it here. since I'm bad at describing, I'll paste the rules from the internet.
The game of Tigers and Goats is played on a special board of 5 x 5 points connected orthogonally to form a grid. There are also diagonal lines from corner to corner and diagonal lines connecting the midpoint on each side to the adjacent side's midpoints.

Bagha Chal is a two-player game of uneven sides and is played with 4 pieces representing a tiger and 20 pieces representing goats.
Flip a coin to decide who player will play tigers for the first game. The board starts with the 4 tigers on the corner points and no goats on the board.

The objective of the tigers is to capture 5 goats. The objective of the goats is to hem the tigers in so that they cannot move.

Players take turns to play and goats start. The game has two phases - in the first phase, the goats are put onto the board. Once all goats have been played to the board, the second phase starts in which the goats are moved.

When it is the tiger's turn, the player may move 1 tiger along any line to an adjacent point or, if possible, the player may hop 1 tiger over 1 adjacent goat and into a vacant point beyond along a straight line. The latter move captures the hopped-over goat which is removed from the board.

When it is the goats turn to play, if not all goats have been placed on the board, the player can only place 1 goat on any vacant point on the board. If all goats have been placed on the board, the player can only move 1 goat to an adjacent point along a line.

Goats cannot hop or take tigers and can only move once all 20 goats have been played to the board. Tigers cannot hop over other tigers.

To prevent a repetitive stalemate, an extra rule is usually employed which says that a player cannot move a piece so that a position of the pieces on the board is repeated.

A game is won by the tigers if they capture (eat) 5 goats. A game is won by the goats if they succeed in preventing any tiger from being able to move.

Each round should consist of 2 games, the players swapping pieces for the second game. If the goats won on both occasions, then the winner is the person who had the most goats left at the end of the game when they played goats. Otherwise it is a draw.

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2. dhegwork-adakly,

Well, it sounds interesting. I would like to play it!

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3. glad,

I was wondering is it similer to revercy somehow.

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4. Emerald,

Yes I agree. It’s Reversi but instead of counters, it’s animals. Guess it could be a variation but that would only be a preference than anything else. Therefore, I don’t think it would be taken on board.

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5. dhegwork-adakly,

It doesn't look like the "reversy" from what I read. Having to circle tiles is more similar to Go, but the game is still different for tigers and goats depending on their message.
When a tiger jumps on a goat, by this I mean that it moves from a square x in a line to another square after the goat. It means that it captures it and leaves the board. Similar to how checkers are captured in Chinese checkers. At no point does it say that the goat reverses itself to become another tiger.
And the goats can't capture tigers, but they can play strategically until the tigers run out of empty squares to jump to, this is how I suppose it works. I have not played.
There are other points to note that make the game different, but I don't have time to debate them right now.
I recommend reading again, since I don't understand how you think this game is similar to "reversy"

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6. glad,

think its like go or something instead of checkers enter and exting the board its the goats or tigers.

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