Wolf and Sheep
There are many alternate names: Fox and Hounds, Fox and Geese, Fox and Dogs, Wolf and Sheep, Hounds and Hare or Devil and Tailors.
The game is played on a chess board sized 8x8 starting with 4 black checkers (the wolves) on one side and a single white checker (the sheep) on the other side.
The wolves hunt the sheep. The sheep moves diagonally one field range forward or backward onto an empty adjacent square per turn. Wolves can only move diagonally one field forward onto an empty adjacent square.
There is no capturing by jumping and no stacking of checkers.
Sheep wins by reaching the other side of the board. Wolves win by blocking the sheep such that it cannot move anymore.
A simple game to teach children (as it is actually done in schools).
Number of players: 2
Game duration: 3 mn
Complexity: 1 / 5
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Rules summary
Objective
Beware this is an asymmetric game :
- BLACK : Wolves need to block the Sheep.
- WHITE : Sheep needs to pass through the wolves and reach their starting line.
Components
- A Chess like board
- 1 white token (called "Sheep")
- 4 black tokens (called "Wolves")
Setup
- Wolves are placed onto fields B8, D8, F8, and H8.
- Sheep starts the game from E1.
On Your Turn
You can move :
- 1 piece at a time
- only diagonally (so you always play on the same cell color of the board)
- only 1 step at a time
- the sheep can move backward, not the wolves
End of game
Beware this is an asymmetric game :
- WHITE Victory : Sheep wins by reaching the other side of the board (8th row or 10th row according to played variant).
- WHITE BGA auto victory : if there is not enough wolves in front of the sheep to block the sheep.
- BLACK Victory : Wolves win by blocking the sheep such that it cannot move anymore (when sheep has no legal move left).
Variants
- Board size
- Chess board : 8x8
- Checkers board : 10x10 (+1 black token)
- Duration
- 1 round is a classic play as defined here
- 2 rounds : One round with Player 1 as White VS Player 2 as Black, then one round with Player 2 as White VS Player 1 as Black
User Preferences
- Board colors
- Tokens on dark cells : Tokens are places as in the pictures on the "black"/darkest cells of the board
- Tokens on light cells : Tokens are places on the "white"/brightest cells of the board
- Interface theme
- Standard : the same background as any classic BGA game like Chess.
- Darker: a black background with 75 % opacity