Hyena Chase strategy

Hyena Chase strategyThe family of games called "Hyena" have been played for generations by the Baggara Arabs of Sudan. There are variants of this race game from the "Hyena Chase" played by school children, to a sophisticated "Hyena" game played by adults which introduces luck tokens and can have a spiral of up to 80 or more spaces. We offer the simpler version, one of the few multi player games with a winner who then becomes a turncoat and tries to keep anyone else from

not just a goal on the board

Players' pawns race around the outer circle attempting to get their pieces into the peg-holes on the center line by a count of the die

the defender wins if they can get their King off the board

It's a jump-and-capture game

You control the placement of your forces in each skirmish

There are variations and different thematic versions

Fox & Geese has been a popular two-player game dating back in some form to the 12th century

and players may send opposing pieces back to the start if they end their movement on the same space

You can also become trapped in your own schemes if you're not careful

Queah is a game from the Queah Tribe of Liberia

the winner is determined by a points system

" meaning that the two players' sets of pegs are different