2 players 10 to adult. Great Gift Idea.

This Bagh Chal board game is carved from local stone and cast brass pieces. The stone board can be purchased as coloured or standard.

Instructions for playing this Fair Trade Tigers and Goats are included with your purchase.

Diameter: Approx 28cm.

This is a Fair Trade Product made in Nepal.

Fair Trade ensures an equitable wage for the work of these skilled artists and their families. Your purchase of this fair trade product is not only good looking decor nad homeware for your coffee table or dining room but each Fair Trade Product sold in Australia will help share the heritage and employment of the people of Nepal.

Please note that as a hand made fair trade product there will be variations in colour and design. The stone, though having a smooth surface, has rough hewn edging.

Bagh Chal is an unusual board game that is widely played in Nepal. The two players (tigers and goats) have different numbers of pieces and different aims to win the game. There are four tigers and twenty goats.

The rules are simple but the strategy is surprisingly complicated and well balanced. Bagha means tiger and chal means to move.

Pieces can move along the lines shown on the board from one intersection to an neighbouring intersection. The game start with the tiger placed in each corner of the boards.

Tigers aim to eat the goats by jumping over in a similar way that pieces are taken in chekcers game. Only one goat may be taken at a time. The Tigers win after they have eaten five goats.

Goats try avoiding being eaten & they win by crowding the tigers so they are unable to move.

You can read an overview of the rules and History of Bagh Chal here: Moving Tigers