There is a large and varied class of hunt games, called tiger games, from south east Asia. They are all played on square boards, and feature one or more tigers against a number of hunters. Bagh guti is one such game, and it comes from India. Its antiquity is unknown; western accounts of the game date from 1906. It is particularly interesting as, unlike many other games of this type, multiple pieces are initially stacked upon a point.

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