Bagchal

Bagchal is an ancient two player Nepali board game used to play in various part of Nepal. Bagchal is a strategic, two player board game that originated in Nepal. The game is believed to have been created by Mandhodari, wife of Ravan.

The game is asymmetric in that one player controls four tiger and the other player controls the 20 goats. The tiger hunts the goats while the goats attempt to block the tigers’ movements. The game is played on as five by five point grid. Pieces are positioned at the intersection of the lines and not inside the areas delimited by them. Directions of valid movements between these points are connected by lines. The game play takes places in two phases. In first phase, the goats are placed on the board while tigers are moved. In the second phase both goats and tigers are moved. For the tigers the objective is to capture five goats to win. Capturing is performed by jumping over the goats. The goats win by blocking all the tigers’ legal move.

This game software is an application based on the c programming language. It is also uses the basic operation of the graphics. This game is a very interesting game for all the age group of people.