Creative Crafthouse Wood Brain Teaser Puzzles Fox and Geese - Peg Game

The game dates to the middle ages and is unusual in that the sides are unequal in number. The fox attempts to capture the geese. Meanwhile, the geese try to hem the fox in so that he can't move.  Rules are as follows: One player has thirteen pieces--the Geese--and the other player has one piece--the Fox. At the beginning of the game the pieces are placed on the board filling essentially all the holes below the center line of the board, as in the illustration by the dark circles The fox occupies the central point. The players take turns moving, with the Geese having the first move. Only one piece is moved in a turn. Both Fox and Geese move in the same way--one step in any direction along a line to an adjacent empty point. But the Fox may also capture Geese--if a Goose is on the next point to the Fox and the point immediately beyond is empty, the Fox may jump over the Goose and remove it from the board. The Fox may make several such jumps in one move, capturing a Goose with each jump. The Geese, however, are not allowed to jump over the Fox or over one another. The Geese win the game if--by surrounding it or forcing it into a corner--they block the Fox so that it cannot move. The Fox wins the game if it captures so many Geese that there are not enough of them left to block it (5).