On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:13:20 +0000 (UTC), Willem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Richard wrote: >) Here's the board (which bears only a slight resemblance to one I'd seen on >) the Web): >) >) +---------------+ >) | HORN $ | >) +---+---+---+---+---+---+ >) |L W| | $ | $ | |R W| >) +E-I+--CHEST+---+---+I-I+ >) |F N| | | | |G N| >) +T-G+---+---+---+---+H-G+ >) | | | | | |T | >) +---+---+---+---+---+---+ >) | LEGS| | | >) +---+---+---+---+ >) >) There are three tigers and fifteen goats. >) The tigers' goal is to eat all the goats and remain mobile. >) It seems that the initial tiger positions are: one on the horn, and one >) each on CHEST-2 and CHEST-3 (see $ marks, above). >) The goats' goal is to block the tigers from moving. >) The goats are placed one by one. >) Tigers appear only to be able to move orthogonally (up/down/left/right) - >) although they can use the horn to whizz across the chest (e.g. CHEST-1 to >) HORN, HORN to CHEST-4, in two moves). >) The rest of the rules are beyond me, I'm afraid. It's not clear how tigers >) eat goats or how goats block tigers. > >If it's similar to the 'other' goats and tigers game, a tiger eats a goat >by jumping over it, for which the square behind it needs to be empty, >obviously. v4 gave us a link to a page that not only lists the rules, but lets you try them out: http://v4vijayakumar.googlepages.com/goats-and-tigers.html Seems like a fun quickie game to play with some coins on a piece of paper. I like the asymmetrical goals and the quick setup. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
