Bagchal (Tigers and Goats)
Nepal's classic tigers-and-goats board game — two players, one screen.
Tap a piece, then tap a highlighted point to move it.
Play Bagchal (Bagh-Chal), the traditional Nepali board game of four tigers against twenty goats, right in your browser with a friend on the same device. Tigers win by capturing 5 goats; goats win by trapping every tiger. Works full-screen on mobile.
Frequently asked questions
How do I play?
Choose Human vs Human or Human vs Computer above the board. The goat player places goats one at a time (tap any empty point); once all 20 are placed, goats move one step at a time instead. Tigers move or capture on every turn from the very start.
How does a tiger capture a goat?
A tiger jumps over an adjacent goat in a straight line — along any line actually drawn on the board — landing on the empty point just beyond it. The jumped goat is removed. Tigers win after 5 captures.
How do goats win?
Goats win by trapping every tiger so none of them has a legal move or jump left, anywhere on the board.
Why do some points have diagonal lines and others don't?
The board is a traditional Alquerque-style grid — every one of the 16 small squares has exactly one diagonal, alternating direction in a checkerboard pattern. That's what gives the center and its four nearest points so many connections, while the corners only have three.
How good is the computer opponent?
Choose Easy, Intermediate, or Expert. On Intermediate and Expert it weighs captures, board mobility, and safety rather than picking randomly, so it's a genuine opponent — but it's a fast heuristic, not an unbeatable solver, and it deliberately varies between similarly-good moves so it doesn't play the exact same way every game.