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Game Giveaway of the day — Bagh Chal

Bagh Chal is the national game of Nepal and has been played throughout the ages. Bagh Chal, which literally translates as "Tiger, Movement" is also called: “game of Tiger Tactics" or "Goats and Tigers".

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Bagh Chal was available as a giveaway on July 26, 2007!

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This game belongs to the family of hunting games in which each player either has a few "predators" or has "preys" which are more numerous. The goats block the tigers and the tigers eat the goats…

How to play

Bagh Chal is played with four Tigers and twenty Goats. At the start of the game, the tigers are placed in the four corners of the board.

The "goat" player places a goat on the board, which he can’t move until all twenty goats have been placed.The "tiger" player moves one of his tigers from one intersection to another, if there is a line linking them together and also if the intersection spot is free, or even (though he doesn’t have to) capture a goat by jumping the tiger over a goat onto a free intersection spot behind the goat, all in a straight line.

The "goat" player, from the twenty-first move onwards, can move his goats from one intersection to another, if there is a line linking them together and also if the final destination spot is free, and try to restrict the tigers’ movements.

To win, the goats must immobilise the tigers. The tigers have to capture as many goats as possible so as not to become immobilised. The tigers always have to leave the goats at least one possibility to move. Normally, if the "tiger" player takes five goats, he wins. The repeated repetition of moves is the equivalent to the "goat" player abandoning.

System Requirements:

Windows XP/Vista; Processor speed : 1 GHz or faster; 128 MB RAM; DirectX 9c

Publisher:

Xing Interactive

Homepage:

http://www.merscom.com

File Size:

63.6 MB

Price:

$12.82

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#26

Hi ! Bagh Chal rules in french : http://baghchal.canalblog.com/

Reply | Comment by Tigers & Goats – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

#25

Anyways thanks GOTD for the good work!!

Reply | Comment by Jelpy – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

#24

Just a note of caution: When I installed it, it tried to install DirectX. Since I don't want DirectX activated on my computer, I cancelled the installation of DirectX and then deleted the game. No problem with that, but then Firefox caused an error on startup, several times. Rebooting did not remove the problem, but reinstalling Firefox did.

Reply | Comment by Chakolate – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

#23

Yesterday and today both I waited patiently for the rather large files to download only to discover that Direct X is also part of the package. I've already got Direct x, so why include it and cause extra download time - I'm talking 7am - 4pm on a slow dialup (time estimated, I actually started sooner and finished later). I liked yesterdays game ok, my 10 yoDD who loves farm life (we have one) thinks the game is great. Only just finished installing this one - I think the 12yo dd will like it. I'm not complaining, I just think that if Direct X is part of the requirements, it shouldn't have to be included in the download and reinstalled again and again on my computer.

Reply | Comment by RR – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

#22

I love the games but the file sizes are just to big. Like yesterdays I really wanted that game the My Farm and I really want this one but I am on dial up and it takes way to long. Please fix it to where people on dial up can download the good games to. I waited 1 hr yesterday and it had only downloaded 10mb of 60mb I am not even going to waist my time anymore.

Reply | Comment by Star – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

#21

I find playing the goats to be extremely easy at all 3 levels. Playing the tigers seems much harder... took me a long time to win even at easy with Tigers (although twice I forced draws, which the rules say count as wins for Tigers but the game doesn't actually recognize)

Reply | Comment by Tom – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

#20

Frequent readers of this site: I believe the thumbs up/down are hit by those who don't even download the game I suspect. I wish that were different.

This board game was unknown to me prior to this and I really am challenged by it. The graphics and logic are excellent. Playing as tigers or goats has a totally different objective. Even the easy mode took me 10 - 12 games to win as goats. When I switched to tigers, the goats whipped my butt! It gave me a new perspective and new ideas for strategies and my game improved. Knowledge of other chase and prey games is helpful, but it is unique. I like the premise and learning games from other cultures is always interesting. Thanks GGotD for all the recent opportunities to do so.

To the developers (and BiP):
1. Thank you for the excellent description of the game and screenshots. They truly help me make a decision on whether or not to download from here these days. (Ahem! GGotD)
2. Why is there an option of music but I can't hear it in anything but the intro? Seems a waste, it's lovely and matches the game well. Perhaps you include it during the game in subsequent releases?

Oh yeah! It's keeper.

Reply | Comment by Bonnie – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

#19

I keep running into a "stale-mate" with this game. Either goat move, tiger eats, or goat go back and forth on the few spaces it has. Anyone else run into this? With chess when you have a potential stale-mate situation you have 25 moves to avoid a stale-mate.

Reply | Comment by Kevin Pardi – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

#18

Yes, another great game :D

I hope they come out with a Go game; Not too many out there.

Reply | Comment by nerkel – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

#17

I may have to #16..
I've tried 6 times to download using both links, but no luck so far.

Thanks for the alternate version.

Reply | Comment by ballpeen – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

#16

If somebody wants to play the game but is on dialup or doesn't want to download over 60 MB, here's a 76kB version:
http://jesse.bur.st/bagh-chal/
Of course without the nice graphics or music.

Reply | Comment by retrokatze – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

#15

Cool. I like these more obscure "board" games from Exotic!
Thx

Reply | Comment by ballpeen – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

#14

To 9 Exploro !
Yes, I'm French, and I prefer use French speaking softwares INSTEAD of English when I can. But of course, I don't pretend to make everybody prefer French speaking softwares.
When it is possible, I would like GAOT/GGAOT to give softwares in French (especially when they are developped in France :)) IN ADDITION to English versions so as I can use it INSTEAD !
:)

You made a point Exploro (but it don't answer the question... Too bad for the version in French. Hopefully I read English better than I speak it !)
Franck

Reply | Comment by Franck – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

#13

#9 Franck, why French INSTEAD of English? Perhaps you meant to say in addition to? Or are you French? :P

Reply | Comment by Exploro – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

#12

#12 Yeah like War!

Reply | Comment by Bor@t – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

#11

Another excellent game from Exotic games curtesy of the game giveaway team. And another keeper for me. As I mentioned the other day; I enjoy playing games from around the world, especially if they are challenging; as this one is to my average mind.

The interface is well presented and the graphics are cool. Simple to learn and definitely a time filler between bigger games, or just as a much needed break from whatever.

I love the start up music. It would have been nice to have it playing in the background while playing; but that's not meant to be a negative as I can always play something via media player :)

You can play against the computer or online via the internet or via a LAN, which is a great plus, especially if you have friends that download this game as well.

The options menu has the usual music and sound effects sliders as well as the ability to toggle between 3D and 2D. I cancelled the installation of DX 9c as I already have it, and it plays fine, so my versions I already have must be compatible with the game.

You can change the music by going to the game folder and selecting the folder data then sons. Inside you will find an ogg file which could be changed for your preferred music, but you will have to convert it to ogg first, then rename it to intro.

Thank you very much for this one. :)

Reply | Comment by WhiteRabbit aka Stephen – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

#10

Gr8!!! Finallly a game compatible with vista!!! More vista compatible games are required.... keep putting up Vista compatible games GAOTD. Good work!!

Reply | Comment by pj – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

PS : I saw that exotic-games (http://www.exotik-games.com/index.php?lang=FR) products (bagh chal, xou-dou qui and surakarta) exist in French. Is it possible to have them in French instead of English ?

Reply | Comment by Franck – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

I really like this one, which is really brain challenging (maybe too much maybe).
Really nothing similar with chess. Would you say chechers is a chess like just because it is played with pawns?
(That's beeing said, a good chess program would be a great GGAOTD !)

This one is really good, and I think I will spend many hours with it. A absolute keepers.

Reply | Comment by Franck – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

I dunno, rob could be using some form of time manipulation. I wouldn't rule it out. Personally though, I think he's just really high.

As to the game... I think I'll pass. Not a big fan of chess variants, which is what this seems to be.

Reply | Comment by Micah – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

#1 and 2# there is no that you downloaded and played this game for 10 hours after it have been on here less than 45 minutes..

Reply | Comment by guitarzan – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

this is a great game i have been playing it for a short while and i still haven't been able to capture those tigers even on the easy level. thank you merscom and GGAOTD keep em' comin'!!!!

Reply | Comment by bluhoteyes – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

How have you been playing for ten hours when the game has only been up for twenty minutes?

Or do you mean the My Farm game? Yeah, I have been playing the heck out of that one.

Reply | Comment by Sparrow – 16 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

I don't care what anyone says...this place is great. Yes, sometimes the games suck, but THEY ARE FREE and this site does get a good one in there once in a while..

THANKS