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Evidence for Treble Fox and Geese
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1811
Type Contemporary rule description
Location England
Date 1681-01-01 - 1681-12-31
Rules Played on a Fox and Geese board with twice as many holes as the standard game, and with diagonals in each square. One player plays as three or four foxes, the other as fifty or sixty geese.
Content "England: Treble fox and geese (R. Holme 1681, 168). 'In which there is three or four foxes and fifty or sixty geese. Every square in the double board hath in this another crosse line made in it from corner to corner of the square." Murray 1951: 104.
Confidence 100
Source Murray, H.J.R. 1951. A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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