Renards et Poulets Board Game | BoardGames.com | Your source for everything to do with Board Games

Description

Renards et Poulets (Foxes and chickens) is a travel game dated 1980.

It is a 2 player game for ages 10 and up.

Goal of the game:
The chickens have to occupy 9 blue positions (the foxes lair).
The foxes have to eat the chickens en stop them conquering their lair.
The winner is the one who fulfills their goal first.

How to play:
The chickens may move one place following the black lines on the board. They can't go backwards. The Foxes can go in all directions ; they can jump any number of chickens, in condition that the end of that straight line there is an open place on the board, and eat the chickens he has jumped. The eaten chickens are then removed from the game. If a fox forgets a possible jump he must wait for the other to complete a jump before moving.
Chickens can't eat foxes, but they can block them.
The game starts with 20 chickens so if the foxes eat 12 or more they have won because the chickens can't occupy the foxes' lair which contains of 9 places on the board.