Sunday, February 1, 2009

Road Games.

Pict via: ffffound
Wiki:

"Mille Bornes (French for a thousand milestones, referring to the stone distance markers on many French roads) is a French card game. It was previously produced by Parker Brothers and is commonly available in stores that sell games. There are also several computer-based versions.

The game was created in 1954 by Frenchman Edmond Dujardin. A key innovation was the the coup-fourré, whereby bonus points are earned by holding back a safety card (such as the puncture-proof tire) until an opponent plays the corresponding hazard card (in this case, the flat tire)

The premise of Mille Bornes is that the players are in a road race. Each race—or hand—is usually 700 miles (or kilometers) long, but the first player to complete that distance exactly has the option to declare an extension in which case the race becomes 1,000 miles. (In the four-player version, the target distance is 1,000 miles from the start.) The object of the game is to reach 5,000 points, which normally takes several hands."

1 comment:

bikerted said...

Remember playing this back in the 1970's. Bonus points were obtained by not playing a 200 mph card. This had a picture of a swallow on it.