Fox and Geese (1400)

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

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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