Len choa

Len choa is a two-player asymmetric hunt game from southern Thailand, then called Siam, first recorded in 1839 by Captain James Low in a chapter on Siamese literature published in the journal Asiatic Researches, though the game's actual age is unknown. One player controls a single tiger piece and the other controls six leopards, played on a triangular board divided by two horizontal lines and one vertical line through its center to create ten points of play, similar in shape to games such as Sri Lanka's Hat diviyan keliya. The tiger starts on the triangle's top point while the board is otherwise empty, and the leopard player drops one leopard per turn onto any vacant point until all six are on the board. After placement, leopards may step one space per turn but may never capture, while the tiger may step to an adjacent vacant point or jump over and capture a leopard in the manner of draughts, though it is never forced to capture. The leopards win by surrounding the tiger so it has no legal move, and the tiger wins by capturing three leopards, leaving too few remaining to trap it.