About the app
One fox. Thirteen geese. A cross of thirty-three points. Fox and Geese is one of the oldest recorded board games in northern Europe, played here in its original form: thirteen geese with free movement, a board with diagonals, and a fox that hunts.
The geese try to hem the fox in until it cannot move at all. The fox picks them off one by one, jumping a goose to the empty point beyond and chaining jumps when the flock leaves a gap. If the flock drops below four geese, the trap can never close and the fox has won. It is a simple game to learn and a hard one to play well.
Features
- Play either side, or watch the computer play itself
- Three strengths, and a goose count from nine to thirteen
- Step back through a finished game move by move to see where it turned
- Full VoiceOver support: every square, piece and move is spoken
- Dynamic Type, increased contrast and reduced transparency all respected
- No accounts, no ads, no tracking and no network access at all
The opponent
The computer opponent looks ahead several moves for both sides, scores the positions it reaches by how boxed in the fox is and how well the flock holds together, and plays the move that comes out best, entirely on your device. At its strongest the geese are genuinely hard to beat: with good play the flock holds the advantage, and the fox lives off mistakes.
- PRICE
- Free
- PLATFORMS
- iPhone, iPad (iOS 18.6 or later)
- LANGUAGES
- English, German
- CATEGORY
- Games – Board
- AGE RATING
- 4+
- DATA COLLECTION
- None
The fox in the app icon is adapted from the Emojione Monotone fox. Emoji artwork is provided by Emojitwo, originally released as Emojione 2.2 by Ranks.com with contributions from the Emojitwo community, and is licensed under CC BY 4.0.