Seal Hunting in Alaska (1898)

The game contains: 5 yellow figures (hunters) and 11 red figures (representing seals). At the start the hunters are placed at the end of the board on which there are 5 red squares and the seals are placed on the 2 rows of red squares at the other end of the board. The object of the game is for the person playing the seals to get at least 5 of them across the board and land them on the 5 red squares at the opposite end of the board, without being captured by the hunters. The object of the hunters being to capture at least 7 of the seals, to prevent 5 of them getting across. Both sides move diagonally on the red squares. The 11 seals moving always forward and the 5 hunters moving either backward or forward. If the person playing the seals succeeds in getting 5 o f them across the board, he may continue to play with any others that still remain on the board, although he has won the game as soon as he has succeeded with 5. The same rule applies to the person playing the hunters, if he succeeds in capturing 7 seals, he may still continue to play and try to capture the remaining 4. —user summary