Goal
The goats win if they surround and immobilize the two tigers. The tigers win if they capture enough goats so that they cannot immobilize the tigers.Equipment
The board is an alquerque board. There are 2 tigers represented as black pieces, and 19 goats represented as white pieces.Game play and rules
1. Players decide which animal to play. 2. In the beginning, one tiger is placed on the middle point of the left most column, and the other tiger is placed on the middle point of the right most column. The goats are placed on four different points. They are placed on the second and fourth point of the second left most column, and on the second and fourth point of the middle column. Three of the four points have five goats piled up, and the remaining point has four goats piled up. 3. Players alternate their turns throughout the game. Only one piece may be used to move or capture per turn. The goats start first. 4. There is no source that completely describes the movement of the goats or tigers for sher-bakar. However, a similar game called Bagh bandi that is from Lower Bengal, India may provide us the answer. The goat player may take the top goat of a pile, and place it onto any vacant adjacent point following the pattern on the board. Or the goat player can take any single goat on the board and move it one space onto any vacant adjacent point following the pattern on the board. A goat may not move onto a pile, or onto a single goat piece to form a pile. Similarly, a tiger may be moved one space onto a vacant adjacent point following the pattern on the board. 5. A tiger can capture by the short leap as inRelated games
*External links
* http://www.two-paths.com/bg/asiantiger.htm * http://homepages.di.fc.ul.pt/~jpn/gv/baghbandi.htm Abstract strategy games Punjabi culture Traditional board games Indian board games