Bagh Chal
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Bagh Chal

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  • 20 min
  • 8+
  • Complexity 2.3/5

Rules assistant for Bagh Chal

For 2 players

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Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.

Bagh Chal is a board game released in 1000 for 2 players, 20 minutes per game, and ages 8 and up. Its main mechanics are Variable Player Powers and Grid Movement.

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About the game

Bagh Chal is a traditional abstract game that is popular in Nepal. The name roughly translates to "Tigers Moving". It is an abstract strategy game with an asymmetric setup, i.e. a different number of pieces per side (like Hnefatafl and its ilk). One opponent plays four tiger pieces and the other plays twenty goats. The board bears a passing resemblance to a Chinese Chess board in that the pieces move along lines from intersection to intersection. However, the gameplay is more similar to Alquerque, Checkers or Draughts. At the start of the game, there are four tigers on the board while there are no goats. The goat player places his/her pieces on the board one by one wherever they choose, with the tiger player getting a move between each placing. Once all the goats are on the board, the two players take turns moving one of their pieces one space. A tiger can alternatively capture a single goat by jumping over it in a line to an empty space. The tigers win if they can capture five goats. The goal for the goats (who cannot make captures) is to hem the tigers in, giving them no opportunity to move or jump. It is one variant from a family of similar Asian games played with varying numbers of tigers/leopards/goats/cows/etc and varying board topologies. See also Cows and Leopards and Fox and Geese. Games played on exactly the same board layout (same lines connecting the intersections and same size) include the traditional Spanish Alquerque and Fanoron-Dimy, the smaller variant of Fanorona from Madagascar. See the according image galleries of these games.

Editions

  • Bagh ChalenLemery Games2024
  • Bagh ChalenLemery Games2022
  • Bagh ChalenNewVenture Games2021
  • TigoenPressman Toy Corp.1986
  • Bagh ChalenAssociation for Craft Producers1984
  • Bagh ChalenAdrenaline Brush Ltd
  • Bhaga ChalenWorld on Wheels
  • Bagh ChalfrA Toi De Jouhet2023
  • Bagh ChalfrLa Mèche Rebelle Editions2008
  • Bagha-ChallMitra
  • Bagh ChalOficina do Aprendiz

Publishers

  • (Public Domain)
  • Mitra
  • Creative Crafthouse
  • Pressman Toy Corp.
  • L. P. Septímio
  • Oficina do Aprendiz
  • Origem
  • Geoludie

Questions and answers

Bagh Chal supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.