Kilkenny Cats

Description
The game is played on a grid. Each player starts with eight pieces, which are moved by roll of a die. Opposing pieces are captured and removed from play by landing on them. The object of the game is to occupy the two goal squares at the opposite side of the board from where your pieces start.

The game was inspired by the popular poem on the two cats from Kilkenny.

There once were two cats in Kilkenny, Each thought there was one cat too many; They scratched and they bit, they clawed and they fit, Till,-excepting their nails, and the tips of their tails, Instead of two cats, - there weren’t any!

Rules

 * This is a game for two, three, or four players. Each player has eight cats of one colour which he lines up on the eight kitten heads. The game is played with one dice. The object of the game is to be the first to place a cat on each of the two mice squares opposite to one’s opening line-up.
 * Players throw the dice which represents ‘Fickle Fortune’ and move in turn. On throwing the dice, a player may move one of his cats as many spaces as is shown on the dice face in one straight line: backwards or forwards, left, right, or diagonally. The cat may not pass by or jump over another cat in its path; however, if a cat lands on a square occupied by another cat, he removes it from the board.
 * We must CAUTION each player to keep in mind that his object is to be the first to fill his two mice squares, and, while waging Kilkenny fights is exciting, indulging in too many may prove a self-defeating pastime.
 * No player is allowed to move his cats on to any mouse square but his own, and once moved on to a mouse square, a piece cannot be moved again. The mice squares must be reached by an exact throw so that, if a player no longer has other cats to move, and his throw would take him beyond the mouse square, he must instead move the cat in some other direction.
 * Whoever first succeeds in filling his two mice squares WINS the game.

Boards
The game board is provided here, if you have a gaming table with a screen face up, you'll have to use a laptop or computer connected to the TV screen via HDMI or VGA. You can open the board in an image viewer and display the board in full screen. How To Fullscreen Game Boards. Remember to click the highest resolution of game boards for the best quality. See Saving Game Boards.

Also included here is a custom 8-Player board.