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THE ANIMAL GAME
adapted for computer by
Peter Donnelly
1301 Ryan Street
Victoria BC Canada V8T 4Y8
Version 1.0 - February 1990
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NOTICE
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The program is released unconditionally into the public domain. However,
the author always appreciates donations from those who wish to recognize
his contribution to the hobby of computing.
The Animal Game was created with Turbo Pascal and Turbo Assembler, which
are copyrighted programs of Borland International.
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HARDWARE REQUIRED
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To run the program you need an IBM-compatible microcomputer with VGA or
16-color EGA system.
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BACKGROUND
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The Animal Game is of Chinese origin. How old it is, or how widely played,
I do not know. I have in my possession a cheap set of wooden pieces with a
paper board, purchased in a Chinatown shop in the 1970s. For the rules of
the game I have relied on R.C. Bell's "Board and Table Games from Many
Civilizations" (Oxford, 1960), the only book where I have seen the game
mentioned. Bell calls it the Jungle Game, but this is not an accurate
translation of the Chinese name, Shou Qi, nor does it truly reflect the
variety of animals represented by the pieces.
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HOW TO PLAY
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The rules are very simple. The board represents the territories of two
warring packs of animals, separated by a river which is spanned by three
bridges. At each end of the board is a den surrounded by three pitfalls.
The object is to get an animal into the enemy's den, and the computer will
announce a win when either player cannot be stopped from doing so on the
following turn.
A piece can move one square at a time in any non-diagonal direction. The
lion and tiger can also leap in a straight line across the river, or from
bridge to bridge. No animal except the rat can enter the water. A rat in
the water blocks the leap of a lion or tiger, whether friendly or enemy, on
its rank or file. You cannot move a piece into your own den.
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moving onto the same square. An exception is that the elephant is
considered to be weaker than the rat, because the rat can kill the elephant
by running into its ear and gnawing its brain. However, the rat cannot
attack the elephant from the water.
An animal in an enemy pitfall can be captured by any other animal.
Otherwise pitfalls do not affect movement or capture.
On two points Bell is not clear, and I have made the following assumptions
about the rules: (1) the rat can attack the enemy rat from the water,
though it cannot capture the elephant in this way; (2) a piece in a
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