Dogs and Jackals is a classic board game that has been around for centuries. It is a two-player game where each player takes turns moving their pieces around the board. The goal of the game is to capture all of your opponent's pieces before they can capture yours. The
Hounds and jackals or dogs and jackals is the modern name given to an ancient Egyptian tables game that is known from several examples of gaming boards and gaming pieces found in excavations. The modern name was invented by Howard Carter, who found one complete gaming set in a Theban tomb from the reign of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenemhat IV that dates to the 12th Dynasty. The latter game set is one of the best preserved examples and is today in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He called it "Hounds contra Jackals". Game historians prefer to call it "fifty-eight holes".