One jaguar against fourteen dogs.
An asymmetric game: one side plays the jaguar, the other the pack of dogs. Pieces step one point at a time along the lines. Only the jaguar may jump an adjacent dog and eat it. The jaguar wins by eating six dogs; the dogs win by leaving the jaguar with nowhere to move.
Played by the Bororo people of Mato Grosso in central Brazil, and known in Portuguese as jogo da onça — "the jaguar game". The board is a grid of points with a triangle attached to one edge. Games pitting one strong piece against many weak ones exist all over the world; Nepal's Bagh-Chal and Malaysia's Rimau are cousins.
As the jaguar, never leap into a line where two dogs stand back to back — you eat one and get surrounded. As the dogs, never approach alone: always keep a friend behind so the landing square is blocked. Press forward together and shave away the jaguar's escapes.
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