Upon the fox's turn, if a goose is adjacent to the fox with an empty point directly behind, the fox may capture that goose by hopping over it into the empty square and removing the smitten goose from the board.Ĭaptured pieces are never replayed onto the board and remain captured for the remainder of the game. However, the geese are restricted to being able to move directly forwards, diagonally forwards or sideways only. Players take turns to move a goose or the fox to an adjacent point along a line. Player's toss a coin to decide who will play the fox - the geese move first. The fox starts in the middle of the board. The geese start by occupying all 6 squares of one arm of the cross plus the whole first adjacent row and the two end points of the central row. The objective of the fox, on the other hand, is to capture geese until it becomes impossible for them to trap him. The geese cannot capture the fox but aim, through the benefit of numbers, to hem the fox in so that he cannot move. Accompanying the board, there should be a single playing piece representing the fox in black or red and 15 white playing pieces representing the geese.įox & Geese is a game of inequality.

Pieces are allowed to move from one point to another only along lines which join points.

The game of Fox & Geese is played upon a cross shaped board consisting of a 3x3 point square in the middle with four 2 x 3 point areas adjacent to each face of the central square.

Solitaire marble game rules