game board; game pieces; game instructions

Components for a two player tactics game, played in a similar manner to the English game 'Fox and Geese'. Includes: a round wooden board with cirular depressions for marbles to sit in, arranged in a cruciform pattern connected by red and black painted lines, with a 'fortress' marked out in green paint at one end; 53 marbles, three large 'kings', and 50 smaller 'pawns'; instructions typed on a sheet of paper.

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