Jungle (board game)

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This article is about Jungle, the board game. For alternate usages: see Jungle (disambiguation).

Jungle or Dou Shou Qi (Traditional Chinese: 鬥獸棋) is a traditional Chinese board game. It is a two player, abstract board game played on a 7x9 board.

Contents 1 Rules 1.1 Board and pieces 1.2 Movement 1.3 Capturing

[edit] Rules

The goal of the game is to move a piece to a special square on the opponent's part of the board - den.

[edit] Board and pieces

The game's board and initial setup of pieces is shown on the picture at right. There are several special squares:

• Den (shown in black color) - white's den on d1 and black's on d9.
• Trap (shown in magenta) - white's traps on c1,d2,e1 and black's on c9,d8 and e9.
• Water (shown in blue) - in the middle of the board.

Each side have 8 different pieces, each piece has a different rank. The larger is the number, the stronger is the piece (with one exception: Mouse can capture Elephant):

1. Mouse
2. Cat
3. Wolf
4. Dog
5. Leopard
6. Tiger
7. Lion
8. Elephant

White pieces are setup in the following way:

• Mouse - g3
• Cat - b2
• Wolf - c3
• Dog - f2
• Leopard - e3
• Tiger - a1
• Lion - g1
• Elephant - a3

Black pieces are setup symmetrically relatively to the center of the board.

[edit] Movement

Players alternate moves with White moving first. During their turn, a player must move. Each piece moves one square horizontally or vertically (not diagonally). A piece may not move to its own den.

There are special rules related to the water squares:

• The Mouse is the only animal that is allowed to go to a water square.
• The Mouse may not capture the Elephant from a water square.
• Lion and Tiger pieces may jump the water moving horizontally or vertically. They move from a square on one edge of the lake to the next non-water square on the other side. Such move is not allowed if there is a Mouse on any of the crossed water squares. It is allowed to capture enemy pieces by such jumping move.

[edit] Capturing

Pieces capture by replacement. The piece can capture any enemy piece, which has the same or lower rank, with the following exceptions:

• You may capture any enemy piece in one of your trap squares regardless of rank.