An early 60's horse race game endorsed by legendary jockey Eddie Arcaro released by Transogram 1962. Released between Eddie Arcaro Sweepstakes (Lourol Enterprises) 1954 and Eddie Arcaro Riders Up (Riders Up Inc.) 1969. The game features beautiful mid century illustrated box art and colourful board graphics. A 3 dice horse race game with an elementary...
Ten races are run. Each race will have eight horses. Each race varies in length from three to ten furlongs. Two factors handicap each horse: the odds of each number being rolled on the special dice vary with the lesser numbers being favored (“One” appears on every die while “Eight” appears on only two dice) and horses carrying less weight have an advantage...
This game (named after one of the best cyclists of all time), simulates a cycling race. Each player controls a team of cyclists and tries to earn as much prize money as possible during a three lap race. You move either by rolling a die (other players who are in the square behind the moving player can 'go with the flow, and follow up for free) or by playing...
EDINGBURGHOPOLY is concerned with business trade in Edinburgh. The object of the game is to accumulate as much wealth as possible through the purchase, trade and development of businesses - the businesses themselves representing actual firms on the Island or town. It has the following features: - Businesses to buy, trade and sell. - A £500 ‘Loan Card’ for...
Paris Match is a weekly magazine, the French equivalent of the American magazine "Life". The “Special Edition” game was designed by the editorial staff of “Paris Match”. The game mechanism is inspired by Trivial Pursuit. We move pawns on a board, we draw a card from the theme corresponding to the square, and we must answer the ten questions asked. The six...
Objective: Be the first reaching space 50 precisely - moving by turns - each player starts with 3 meeples on three different routes (tea, coffee, cacao) trying to reach space 25 (production unit) precisely. Ending on a marked space follow instructions. Successfully finished you have to move your big meeple up to space 50 (consumer). Note: Likely published...
Eduskuntapeli is roll and move game from the sixties, where your want your party members to be elected to Finnish parliament (Eduskunta). On your turn you roll the die and move one of your party members in the game board. Some areas in the game board are electoral districts, where you collect random amount of votes (1000-4000). 10000 votes gets you...
In Een Dijk van een Spel 2 to 4 player play a dikereef and must protect low-lying areas (dike-rings) with dikes. The first dikereef, to successfully protect 4 areas in two different regions is declared the winner. Storms and high water makes this a difficult job, though. Een Dijk van een Spel(literally translated: "a dike of a game") is a game published by...