Fox & Geese & Solitaire
Chip Carving Instructions
Fox & Geese on a Chip Carving Board
FOX AND GEESE
It often adds interest to a piece of decoration if its corresponding members are not exactly the same.
This idea is carried out in Plate X and in Plate XV in the long chips along the sides of the board, the valley at the top of the plate being straight and the one at the left curved.
Sparklets might be introduced in some of the diamonds.
DIRECTIONS FOR FOX AND GEESE
The fox is placed at the center hole. He can jump and so take up a goose next to him if the hole just beyond is empty.
If conditions are right, he can sometimes jump more than one goose at a move. The fifteen geese occupy one arm (say the upper) of the cross solidly, and then extend to either side, occupying holes in the outer row.
For the geese to win, they must so block the fox that he cannot move.
DIRECTIONS FOR SOLITAIRE
The problems of solitaire are various: one, for example, being to start with all holes filled except the center one, then to jump (and take up) all pegs except the last one, which is to land in the center hole.
One or several holes in other parts of the board may be left empty, and so other problems created.