Nepal · Himalayan folk game · 5×5 point board
Bagh Chal — "moving tigers" — is a folk game from Nepal played for generations on a board of twenty-five points joined by lines. Four tigers hunt; twenty goats try to out-crowd them. The two sides don't play the same game at all.
Four tigers start in the board's corners. Twenty goats start in hand. The goat player places one goat per turn onto any empty point, and can't move any goat until all twenty are down. Tigers can move or jump from the very first turn, sliding one step along a drawn line into an empty adjacent point.
A tiger captures by jumping in a straight line over one adjacent goat into the empty point directly beyond it, the way a checkers piece jumps. The goat is removed. Goats never capture — their only weapon is numbers and position.
Tigers win by capturing five goats. Goats win by trapping every tiger so that none of them has a legal move — or, once the full flock of twenty is on the board, by surviving forty-four moves in a row without losing anyone.
Bagh Chal appears twice on the ladder, once playing the tigers and once playing the goats, and it's free to practice either side at five difficulty levels.
Whatever you play here counts toward your Game IQ — a private score built from how your moves compare to the best one actually available, not just whether you won. See how hard the AI really is →
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