Plan a Fox and the Hound Night (Perhaps for Family Home Evening tomorrow night)

First, watch the Movie “The Fox and the Hound. Be sure to include popcorn or other treats. After the movie play this new version (to me) of a very old game—Checkers. It’s called “Fox and Hounds.” Perhaps you could have a tournament to see who can win as the Fox the most. Here’s the details:

What You Need:
Checker board
5 checkers (1 of one color and 4 of the second color)
Instructions:

1) First, decide who will be the fox (a single checker of one color) and who will be the hounds (4 checkers of the second color). Set up the “hounds” on one end of the board on black squares. The “fox” can choose any of the black squares in the row at the opposite end of the game board.

2) The pieces are moved diagonally as in checkers, one square at a time, but the hounds can only go forward, while the fox can go backward too. There's no jumping or capturing; the fox is always up against four hounds. Turns are taken alternately by the fox and then one of the hounds.

3) The hounds win by trapping the fox (so he can't make any more moves); the fox wins by evading the hounds and making his way to one of the hounds' home squares.

You may need more than one Checkers games if you have multiple family members that can play. I have also thought that multiple players could be the hounds in a game and turns could be taken in a rotation basis. (One hound, then the fox, then a different hound, then the fox, then yet again, another hound and then the fox. And so on.) This would take team work on the part of the different hounds. But hey, in a real fox hunt, everyone has to cooperate to catch the fox, too. I don’t know if this would work since I have no multiple family members at my home right now but I think it could be pretty fun.