Published by Chirag Finaviya on 2019-06-01
What is Sixteen Soldiers?
Sixteen Soldiers is a two-player abstract strategy board game from Sri Lanka, also known as Cows and Leopards in India and Sholo guti in Bangladesh. The game is played on an expanded Alquerque board consisting of four triangular boards attached to the four sides of an Alquerque board. The goal of the game is to capture all the other player's pieces, or a predetermined number of opposing pieces in the case of Sholo guti. The game is related to draughts, Alquerque, Peralikatuma, Kotu Ellima, and the Indonesian game of Permainan-Tabal.
1. If a player does not capture any enemy piece during their turn, but was actually able to do so, then the other player removes that piece that failed to make its capture from the board.
2. The game is similar to draughts and Alquerque as players hop over one another's pieces to capture them.
3. In Sholo guti, players can agree beforehand the number of opposing pieces to be captured to win the game.
4. The player's piece must be adjacent to the enemy piece, and leap over it onto a vacant point on the other side.
5. A piece can capture an enemy piece in any direction by the short leap as in draughts or Alquerque.
6. In Sixteen Soldiers, each player has 16 pieces hence the name of the game.
7. However, unlike draughts and standard Alquerque, the game is played on an expanded Alquerque board consisting of four triangular boards attached to the four sides of an Alquerque board.
8. In the case of Sholo guti, the number of opposing pieces to be captured that both players agree upon.
9. A piece moves one space per turn in any direction following the pattern on the board onto an unoccupied point on the board.
10. Each players pieces are initially set up on the first four ranks of their side of the board.
11. Players alternate their turns, and only use one piece to either move or capture per turn.
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- Simple UI and attractive design
- Single player vs Second Player - play with Computer
- Smooth animations
- Good game for kids to learn sholo guti strategy
- 2 player game
- Play totally offline
- Perfect family board games a kind of smart strategy Board game
- Best Board game and true family board game