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Leap Frog, also known as Leapfrog, is a multi-player abstract strategy board game that was described by H.J.R. Murray in A History of Board Games Other Than Chess (1898) and attributes its origin to England.[1][2] Several variants have been created (see Variants section) including one by Murray himself which utilizes different colored pieces with alternative point values. In the traditional game, players take any piece on the board and use it to hop over and capture other pieces. When no more pieces can be captured, the game ends, and the player with the most pieces is the winner. Murray includes it in the section called Clearance Games which has the game Solitaire. It resembles Solitaire in many ways except that Solitaire is typically only played by one person.
Murray never stated that the moves are limited to orthogonal directions.[3] The game might still work with diagonal moves.
- ^ Murray, H. J. R. (1952). A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 93–94.
- ^ Parlett, D. (1999). The Oxford History of Board Games. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 156.
- ^ Walker, Damian. "Leapfrog Leaflet #30". Cyningstan Traditional Board Games. Retrieved 26 June 2016.