1. Fox & Geese is played on a cross-shaped board with 33 intersections. Lines indicate permitted moves.

2. One player is the fox; they place a single BEAD, the colour of their choice, in the middle of the board.

3. One player is the geese;

4. They select 15 BEADS the colour of their choice and place them on the 15 circles on the board, this will cover all 6 play spaces on one arm of the board, plus 7 spaces directly off the arm, and the spaces at the 2 endpoints of the middle row.

5. Players decide who begins the game by rolling a die.

1. The player who plays the geese may only move 1 BEAD 1 space each move, and only along the lines indicated on the board. Geese can only move to adjacent spaces that are empty.

2. The player who plays the fox may move their BEAD one space along the indicated lines to an adjacent empty space, or they can capture a goose.

3. To capture geese, the fox can jump over a goose BEAD and land on an empty space beyond it.

4. Captures can be chained together if, upon jumping over a goose BEAD and capturing it, the fox is adjacent to another goose BEAD with an empty space beyond it.

5. Captures are not mandatory.

6. Captured geese BEADs are removed from the board.

7. Geese cannot capture the fox BEAD.

1. The geese win the round if they can trap the fox so that the fox cannot move.

2. The fox wins the round if the fox can capture enough geese that it becomes impossible for the geese to win.

3. Players alternate between playing the geese and the fox and the player who wins the most rounds wins the game.

1. Fox games are a category of board games for two players, where one player is the fox and tries to eat the geese/sheep, and the opposing player directs the geese/sheep and attempts to trap the fox, or reach a destination on the board.

2. The game Halatafl is known from at least as early as the 14th century, and it is mentioned in Grettis saga. It probably originated in Scandinavia, as a variant of Tafl. In fact, Halatafl is still played in Scandinavia with rules similar to Tafl; see below. Edward IV of England is known to have purchased two foxes and 26 hounds to form two sets of Marelles, believed to be Fox and Hounds. As Fox and Geese, the game was a favorite pastime of Queen Victoria.