Teetotallers will know that a well-known brand of tea leaves draws its name from an ancient Indian pastime, in which goats need to cunningly defeat a tiger. Board gamers will know that no real animals were used in this game. Dr Irving Finkel will further add that this ancient Indian game exists in several other parts of the world too — the Nepalese call it Bagh Chal; in Sumatra it is the Meurimueng-rimueng-do and it is Lupo e pecore in Italy. While the number and species of predators and prey vary, the rules stay the same — eat, or be eaten.