Tiger and buffaloes is a two-player abstract strategy board game from Myanmar (formerly known as Burma).
The board is a 4x4 square grid, where pieces are placed on the intersection points and move along the lines.
The tigers attempt to capture as many of the buffaloes by the short leap as in draughts or alquerque.
Tiger games usually consist of a standard Alquerque board which is a 5 x 5 square grid with several diagonal lines.
It therefore most resembles hunt games such as khla si ko, len cúa kín ngoa, and sua ghin gnua.
Khla si ko is a Cambodian variant of Myanmar's tiger and buffaloes and of Thailand's len cúa kín ngoa.
[2] The game is also sometimes spelled as kla si ko or khlaa syi kau.
But both Khla si ko and Tiger and buffaloes have only orthogonal movement of pieces, and only move one space at a time.
Tigers in both games capture by the short leap as in draughts and Alquerque, and only in orthogonal directions.
A game called Dragons and Swans is played exactly the same way with the same board and number of pieces.