In this game players compete to be the first to sail through a river. Sailing is done one at a time by trying to trace the river with a small plastic 'staff' while blindfolded. A player's turn continues until they hit a shore or reaches the goal. If a player hits shore, the others will shout 'stop!'. The player puts their pawn on that spot, and when it's...
Each player starts with three pigs in his pigpen. The goal of the game is to get rid of the pigs. Movement is determined by two dice and comences on the track of each players color around the game bord ant into the meadow in the center. If at least one of the dice shows an 1 and one of the player's pigs is in a segment of his color, he discards the pig to...
From the directions: A lightning fast game for 2 or 3 players. The goal is to move all three of a player's marbles around the board from base position to "home safe". Each player rolls his dice once to determine who plays first. Player rolling the highest number is first and chooses his color, placing the three marbles in "base" position. Play will proceed...
User summary: 浄土双六 (Joudo-Sugoroku) is a traditional Japanese game originally produced during the Muromachi period (1336 to 1573) and later developed into Tobi-Sugoroku in the Edo Period (1603 to 1868). As with the later Tobi-Sugoroku (and Mawari-Sugoroku), the original designers' and illustrators' names are lost to history. Joudo-Sugoroku is themed on the...
This is a cycling game about Richard Virenque - the former cyclist. The aim of the games is to become the best cyclist - Richard Virenque (a little chauvinism comes naturally to the French) There are 6 different races that have to be run (time trial, mountain, cobblestones,..) Depending on the race you roll 1 or 2 dice and move that many spaces. There are...
How wonderful it will be to take a journey down the Amazon with your friends Bromley (parrot fish) and Coltica (parrot). You will learn about the actual animals that live in the Amazon. Along the way, see special places such as Bromley's Flower Garden, the Spectacled Caiman Lodge, Pygmy Owl Singing Classes and the Kapok Hop Dance Camp. Objective: Be the...
A travelling game through Continental Europe. Each player begins in a home city and draws 8 cards for other cities they must visit by a combination of land, sea and air travel. Roll a die each turn for movement, with players trying to choose the optimal routes. The first player to visit all their cities and return home wins. The limitation of using only 1...
NOTE: This game page is only for the game from the 1700s, not for the similarly-titled but unrelated game Journey Through Europe (aka Explore Europe) published by Ravensburger et al in the 1950s through 1990s. This game is believed to be the first or one of the first known games in the English-speaking world to be attributed to an individual designer. It...