Catch the hare

Catch the hare is a two-player abstract strategy board game from Europe, and perhaps specifically from Spain.

In some variants, some or all of the diagonal lines are missing which makes it difficult to classify as a tiger game in general.

Cercar la liebre evolved into many variants around the world including the games of Fox and Geese.

The new names given were pon chochotl or coyote and chickens according to game historians Stewart Culin and David Parlett, and "they were played by the Papago Indians of Arizona and the Tew Tribe of New Mexico who play on the same board as Alfonso’s cercar la liebre",[1]: 621  and Indian and jackrabbits which are things found in the Americas.

Mexicans play on one version with only two main diagonals,[1]: 621  and this is described by Stewart Culin in his book Chess and Playing Cards: Catalogue of Games and Implements for Divination Exhibited by the United States National Museum in Connection with the Department of Archaeology and Paleontology of the University of Pennsylvania at the Cotton States and International Exposition (1895), and calls it coyote, a game from Mexico, with only the main diagonal lines present.

[2] In some cases the diagonal lines were completely removed making it difficult to classify with the other tiger games such as bagh-chal, rimau-rimau, and buga-shadara.

As stated earlier, Mexicans play on a variant of catch the hare with only two main diagonals which is called coyote, and it is described by Stewart Culin.