Bagh Chal: Tiger and Goat Game

Bagh Chal is the classic tiger and goat board game from Nepal, also written Baghchal and known in India as Bagh Bakri. Four tigers hunt, twenty goats try to trap them. Play offline against the computer, share one phone with a friend, or solve a fresh puzzle every day.

How to play:
Tap Play vs computer, or Two players to share one phone.
Choose your side: tigers or goats.
Goats enter the board one per turn. Once all 20 are placed, they can move.
A tiger captures by jumping over a goat to the empty point behind it.
Tigers win by capturing 5 goats. Goats win when no tiger can move.

Features:

Play offline
No internet needed, no account and no ads. Open the game and start a match in seconds.

Four computer opponents
Lamb is still learning, Shepherd knows the basics, Hunter plans ahead and Master rarely forgives a mistake. Beat a level to open the next one.

Tigers or goats
Each side feels like a different strategy game. Tigers look for a gap to jump through. Goats work together to close every gap.

Two player mode
Pass the phone across the table and play a friend face to face, the way Baghchal has always been played.

Daily puzzle
One Bagh Chal puzzle every day with a single right answer, such as trapping every tiger in 3 moves. Keep your streak going, get a hint after 2 tries and copy your result to share.

Undo and hints
Take back a move when you slip, and ask for up to 3 hints in a game.

English, Nepali and Hindi
Play the whole game in the language you feel at home with.

Paper and night themes
A calm ink on paper look by day, a dark theme by night, or follow your phone setting.

Your record
See your wins at each level, your longest winning run and how many daily puzzles you have solved.

A game with many names
You may know it as Bagchal, Bagh Bakri, or simply the tiger and goat game. Whatever you call it, this is the same 5 by 5 board with 4 tigers and 20 goats that families in Nepal and India have played for generations.

Contact us
Questions or feedback? Write to us at info@thulotechnology.com

Download Baghchal and see if your goats can trap the tigers.