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Cows and Leopards

Cows and Leopards

(Public Domain)
215 min1.8/5 complexity5.6 BGG#26.306 BGG85KidsCouplesStrategy
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Cows and Leopards is a traditional game from Sri Lanka and India for 2 players, where one plays with 2 leopards and another with 24 cows. Beginning with all tiles outside the board, the players take turns first placing the tiles inside and later moving them from one intersection to another.

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Cows and Leopards is a traditional game from Sri Lanka and India for 2 players, where one plays with 2 leopards and another with 24 cows. Beginning with all tiles outside the board, the players take turns first placing the tiles inside and later moving them from one intersection to another. Every player has a different objective. The one with the leopards must capture all the cows jumping over them while the one with the cows attempts to immobilize the leopards.

This is one variant from a family of similar Asian games played with varying numbers of tigers/leopards/goats/cows/etc and varying board topologies. See also Bagh Chal.

game anatomy
Complexity1.8 / 5
BGG rating5.6 / 10
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KidsCouplesStrategy
Language dependence
No in-game text needed
🌐 plays without English
Play time
15 min
Players
2
BGG rank
#26.306
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Q3How do you play Cows and Leopards?
Cows and Leopards is a abstract strategy game, for 2 players, taking ~15 minutes, featuring point to point movement. Check the Rules tab for setup, gameplay, and scoring, or ask Trișache anything about Cows and Leopards — our AI assistant built by howtoplay.ro and trained specifically on board game rulebooks.
Q4How many players does Cows and Leopards support?
Cows and Leopards is played by 2 players.
Q5How long does a game of Cows and Leopards take?
A game of Cows and Leopards takes about 15 minutes. (The first game doesn't count. It never counts.)
Q6How complex is Cows and Leopards?
Cows and Leopards has a BoardGameGeek complexity of 1.8 out of 5.
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