Cows and Leopards
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Cows and Leopards

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  • 15 min
  • Complexity 1.8/5

Rules assistant for Cows and Leopards

For 2 players

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

Cows and Leopards is a board game for 2 players and 15 minutes per game. Its main mechanics are Variable Player Powers and Point to Point Movement.

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About the game

Cows and Leopards is a traditional game from Sri Lanka and India for 2 players, where one plays with 2 leopards and another with 24 cows. Beginning with all tiles outside the board, the players take turns first placing the tiles inside and later moving them from one intersection to another. Every player has a different objective. The one with the leopards must capture all the cows jumping over them while the one with the cows attempts to immobilize the leopards. This 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 Bagh Chal.

Editions

  • Cows and LeopardsenGuild Publishing
  • Mucche e leopardiitFratelli Fabbri Editori (Fabbri Editore)2001
  • Leoparden und RinderdeMissio1990
  • KungserdeHABA1987
  • LhasadeSteidl Verlag1973
  • Sri LankadeASS Altenburger Spielkarten
  • KungserdeHausser
  • Kühe und LeopardendeHistorische Spiele Zander

Publishers

  • ASS Altenburger Spielkarten
  • (Public Domain)
  • Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Fabbri Editore)
  • HABA
  • Guild Publishing
  • Hausser
  • Historische Spiele Zander
  • Oak Games

Questions and answers

Cows and Leopards 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.