Fox and Geese (1400)

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Playtime: 20
Min. Age: 8
Players: 2
Publisher: Milton Bradley, (Public Domain), L. P. Septímio, Cooperman Fife & Drum Company, J.M. Kronheim & Cos., Peri Spiele, Juegos Ya S.L., Green Board Game Co., Hausser, Boy's Own Paper, NewVenture Games, Damm / Egmont, Old Time Games, IKEA, HistoryGames.it, Micki Leksaker, Amor Spielefabrik, Oficina do Aprendiz, Trixy Games, MB Spiele, Egel-Spelen, Drechsler, VEB Plastspielwaren Berlin, Verlag Schmidt Zwiebeltürme, Brimtoy, Brio AB, Koster Brothers, Josef Schneider Jr., Wien, ABRA, Piatnik, MB Spellen, The Game Crafter, LLC, Carrom Company, Noris Spiele, Guild Publishing, D-Toys, E. S. Lowe Company Inc., Stafford Products Co., (Unknown), Verlag Junge Welt, Creative Crafthouse, Alga, Jumbo, Bienengräber, Schmidt Spiele, Handfaste, McLoughlin Brothers, West Enterprises, Regionalia Verlag GmbH, W. & S. B. Ives
Designers: (Uncredited)
Artists: John R. Stafford, Richard Hambach
Mechanics: Variable Player Powers, Grid Movement, Static Capture, Point to Point Movement, Square Grid

Possibly a relative of Hnefatafl, Fox and Geese is a hunt game played on a cross-shaped board of thirty-three points connected by vertical, horizontal, and alternating diagonal lines. Like many ancient abstract strategy games, the number of pieces and their starting positions varies from region to region but the general play of the game is the same: one player controls a single piece, the fox, the other player controls the geese (usually 13 to 17). The fox player tries to remove all of the geese from the board by jumping them. The geese player tries to prevent this from happening by pinning down the fox so that it cannot move.

The game of Solitaire can be played on a Fox & Geese board, and some sets include additional markings for playing Asalto = Siege.

There are some claims that Fox and Geese is related to an earlier game called Halatafl, but there is as yet no concrete definition of what exactly this game was or how it was played. There are also several contemporary games using the Halatafl name, at least one of which is played on a similar board to Fox and Geese but with differing rules.

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