Fox games

The game is played with tiles on a game board, which was originally made ​​of leather or may have been drawn on the floor. The game board is constructed as in solitaire, but the pieces are distributed differently. A player plays the "fox" ( o), the other the " geese " (x).

X x x      x x x x x x x x x x. . . o. . . . . . . . . .     . . .     . . . It is often played with 18 geese. In this game, usually win the geese. In order to increase the chances of the fox, 17 geese were used in later versions, for example, who can not pull backwards, however.

The player who plays the " geese ", makes the first train, the straight, right or left, can be drawn in some versions, diagonally to the next field.

Also, the "fox" may each draw a step, but also suggest a goose, he is standing right in someone else's game stone and behind the stone nor a field is free. The defeated stones are removed from the game. The geese are beaten by the fox she skips straight. A game alternative is to be able to make several jumps in a row.

Recovered have the geese when the fox can not be moved, or the fox, if not enough geese are left to encircle him.

Start variant with 13 geese and without diagonals

X - x - x          | | |           x - x - x          | | | x - x - x - x - x - x - x   | | | | | | |. -. -. - O -. -. -.   | | | | | | |. -. -. -. -. -. -.           | | |          . -. -.          | | |         . -. -. Start variant with 20 geese and with diagonals

X - x - x          | \ | / |           x - x - x          | / | \ | x - x - x - x - x - x - x   | \ | / | \ | / | \ | / | x - x - x - x - x - x - x   | / | \ | / | \ | / | \ |. -. -. - O -. -. -.           | \ | / |          . -. -.          | / | \ |         . -. -. Similar games

Fox and hen

X x x      x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x. . O 0 to 0..      o o o      o o o The aim of the hens (x ) here is to place at least 9 of them in the chicken coop (o). The aim of foxes ( 0) is to prevent exactly this.