This is a Japanese board game for children, a variant of shogi. It is also known as «Catch the Lion».

The game is played on a 3×4 grid; at the start, each player has one lion, one giraffe, one elephant and one chick. All pieces are captured in the same way as they are moved. Captured pieces are placed ‘in hand’, and can subsequently be redeployed on one’s own side. Players take turns. A move consists of moving a piece across the board according to the rules, or placing any previously captured piece ‘from hand’ onto any empty square. The winner is the player who is first to capture the opponent’s lion or to move their own lion to the final horizontal row (onto a square that cannot be captured by the opponent).

Choose from: Dobutsu Shogi and Goro Goro Dobutsu Shogi (a 5×6-square variant with additional pieces).