Play Baghchal online: four tigers, twenty goats.

The game

What is Baghchal?

Baghchal is a two-player strategy game played on a board of 25 points. One player takes four tigers, the other takes twenty goats, and the two sides win in completely different ways. There are no dice and no cards — every position comes from a decision somebody made.

The tigers win by capturing five goats, jumping over a single goat into the empty point directly beyond it. The goats never capture anything. They win by leaving all four tigers with no legal move at all. Goats arrive one per turn and cannot move until every one of the twenty is on the board.

Choose your side

One board. Two different fights.

Tigers hunt five goats. Goats win by blocking every tiger. Pick a side and learn the board from its point of view.

Play the tigers

Hunt five goats. Keep escape routes open and check where each jump lands.

Tiger strategy →

Play the goats

Place twenty goats. Support each block and close every tiger's route.

Goat strategy →

Start a match

Play Baghchal online or on your device.

1. Get the mobile appInstall Baghchal from the App Store or Google Play for play on your phone or tablet.
2. In your browserNo download. Local two-player games and three computer difficulties, on any device.
3. Share one deviceTake turns in local two-player mode — the closest thing to a physical board.
4. Invite a friendCreate a private room and send its six-character code to play from separate devices.

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Learn the game

From first move to closing the net.

Everything here is checked against the rules the game engine actually enforces, not written from memory.

1. How to play your first gameWhich side to start with, where the first goats go, and how to see a capture coming.
2. The complete rulesBoth phases, how tigers capture, how each side wins, and the rules people get wrong.
3. The board25 points, six diagonals, and why some points are worth three of the others.
4. Strategy for both sidesWhat each side is really trying to do, and the habits that decide close games.