Bagh bandi

Bagh bandi is a two-player hunt game from the Lower Bengal region of South Asia, in which two tigers face thirty-two goats. One player controls the two tigers, which may be placed anywhere on the board, and the other controls the goats, which start as four stacks of eight on the central points of the board quadrants. The board is a five by five grid of intersecting lines with diagonals drawn in the four quadrants, plus two triangles whose apices meet the main board at opposite midpoints. Players alternate moving a piece to an empty adjacent point along the lines. Goats leave their stacks one at a time and cannot be restacked once moved. A tiger captures by hopping over an adjacent goat to the empty point directly beyond it, may make several captures in one turn, and takes only one goat when it hops a stack. The goats win by blocking both tigers from moving, and the tigers win by capturing every goat. The Ludii record places the game in the modern period and cites a 1930s published description by J. Datta.