Fox and Geese

a favorite parlor game. It is played by two players. One manages the fox; the other has thirteen geese. The board is marked with a diagram having the shape of a Greek cross. Fox and geese may move in any direction backward, forward, or diagonally, from one intersection to another. The geese advance one at a time toward the fox. For each move of a goose the fox is entitled to a move. If at any time the fox occupies a space next a goose, and the space beyond the goose is vacant, the fox may jump over the goose and thus remove that goose from the board. The object of the geese is to pen the fox up in a corner, so that he can neither jump nor move. The object of the fox is to carry off, that is, to jump, so many geese that his imprisonment becomes impracticable.