HOW
TO MAKE A QUICK GAME
On holiday
and it's raining again, or perhaps the children are
on half term and are already bored, get them to help
make this simple board game sometimes known as:-
"Fox and Rabbits"
Draw 25
circles in 5 rows of 5 each, on a piece of paper or
card -
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SETUP
Place 10 x 2p. pieces
(rabbits) across the bottom two rows of circles and
1 on each end of the centre row, as illustrated, and
a 10p. piece (fox) in the middle of the centre row.
OBJECT
To win the rabbits
must surround the fox, or the fox must capture all
but one of the rabbits.
MOVES
One player controls
all the rabbits and the other the fox. Both
the rabbits and the fox can move one circle up, down
or across (i.e. horizontally and vertically but not
diagonally).
METHOD
The fox can capture
the rabbits by jumping over them, as in draughts,
and can make more than one jump in a turn IF ALL THE
JUMPS ARE IN A STRAIGHT LINE.
The fox starts the
game.
from www.hintsandthings.co.uk
