How to play
- Pick a side. Choose to play the flock of geese or the lone fox; the computer plays the other side.
- Move along the lines. As the geese, step one point down or sideways to advance your wall. As the fox, step any direction or jump over an adjacent goose to capture it — chained jumps count as one move.
- Trap or thin the flock. Win as the geese by boxing the fox in so it has no move; win as the fox by capturing enough geese that they can no longer trap you.
About Fox and Geese
Fox and Geese is an old asymmetric hunt game played on the cross-shaped board of 33 points — the same board as peg solitaire. One lone fox faces a flock of thirteen geese, and the two sides win in completely different ways. The geese, more numerous but weaker, can only step one point down or sideways — never backward — so they advance like a slow wall, trying to box the fox into a corner. The fox steps in any direction and can jump straight over an adjacent goose to the empty point beyond, capturing it like in draughts, and it can chain several jumps in a single move. If the fox thins the flock too far, the fox wins; if the geese hem it in, the geese win. Choose a side and the computer takes the other. No signup, no download, nothing uploaded.
Preguntas frecuentes
The game is played on a cross of 33 points with one fox against thirteen geese. The two sides take turns moving along the lines: the geese try to trap the fox so it cannot move, while the fox tries to capture geese by jumping them. Each side wins in its own way.
The fox captures exactly like in draughts: it jumps in a straight line over a goose on an adjacent point to the empty point immediately beyond, removing that goose. If another jump is available from the landing point the fox can chain them together in a single move.
The geese win by hemming the fox in — surrounding it or pinning it in a corner so that it has no legal step and no jump available on its turn.
The fox wins by capturing enough geese that too few remain to ever trap it. Once the flock is thinned past that point, the fox is declared the winner.
Geese may only move one point down or sideways, never back toward where they started. This restriction forces the flock to commit forward and close the net, giving the faster fox a fighting chance.
Yes. Use the “Play as” selector to take either the geese or the fox, and the computer plays the other side. The difficulty setting controls how sharply the computer plays.
Yes — Fox and Geese is completely free, with no watermark on the output and no credit card required.
Yes. It runs in your browser, so Fox and Geese works on phones and tablets as well as desktop — there is no app to install.
No. Fox and Geese works with no signup at all; an optional free account only exists to unlock higher usage limits.
Usually just a few seconds for a typical file — Fox and Geese starts working the moment you give it your input.
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