On the Reeperbahn at half past one at night

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On the Reeperbahn at half past one at night
Game data
author Pure Knizia
graphic Claus Stephan ,
Mirko Suzuki
publishing company Cosmos Games ,
Rio Grande Games
Publishing year 2006
Art Card game
Teammates 2
Duration 20 to 30 minutes
Age from 12 years

On the Reeperbahn at half past one at night there is a card game by the German game designer Reiner Knizia for two people. The game was published in 2006 by Kosmos Spiele together with Rio Grande Games (as Time Square ) and was published in Germany in the series Spiele für Zwei .

Theme and equipment

The game is a card and board game in which the two players use the cards tactically to move figures on a playing field onto their own half of the playing field and thus one of two central figures, Schampus-Charlie and Brilli-Lilli, have to lure them into their bar. The game title and the selection of the game characters refer to the song Auf der Reeperbahn at half past twelve and the film of the same name from 1954. "Blonde Hans" is an allusion to the actor Hans Albers , who played the main role in the film . The red Lola, on the other hand, is the title of a film by Alfred Hitchcock from 1949 with Marlene Dietrich in the leading role, who played the variety singer Lola Lola in the film Der Blaue Engel from 1930 and thus gave the film its name.

The game material consists of the game instructions

  • a game plan,
  • 55 playing cards in four colors,
  • 6 pawns (2 bodyguards, Champagne Charlie, Brilli-Lilli, Red Lola and Blonde Hans).

Style of play

To prepare for the game, the game plan is set up between the two players so that everyone sits in front of a local entrance. The figures of Schampus-Charlie and Brilli-Lilli are placed in the middle field, with Schampus-Charlie in the dark edge. Then the two bodyguards belonging to Lilli are placed on the right in front of and behind her with an empty space in between. The positions of Red Lola and Blond Hans are drawn by lot, then these are placed on the empty spaces between Brilli-Lilli and the bodyguards. The cards are shuffled and each player is dealt eight cards, which he takes face down in his hand.

The player, on whose side Blonde Hans is, starts the game; then both players take turns playing a full turn. In each turn a player can play any number of cards of one color or, alternatively, place a bodyguard or Brilli-Lilli on the space with the blond Hans. As a third option, a player may discard any number of cards unused.

With the cards, each card color relates to a playing figure. The green cards belong to Brilli-Lilli, the red cards to the red Lola, the yellow to the blond Hans and the gray cards to the two bodyguards; There are no cards for Champagne Charlie as he cannot be actively moved. There are a few rules for playing the cards:

  • The active player can always play one or more cards; however, they must all be the same color. The cards are played individually and executed one after the other. A card that cannot be used may not be played.
  • The green, red and yellow cards each indicate how many steps each person is allowed to move. Two green cards can be used together to move the whole group of Lilli and her two bodyguards one space.
  • There are three types of gray cards - either one bodyguard can be moved one space or both bodyguards can be moved one space or one space two spaces (back and forth) or both bodyguards are moved to the positions in front of and behind Lilli.

After a card has been played, a piece has been called to the Blond Hans or cards have been discarded, the active player draws so many cards from the draw pile that he has eight cards in hand again. Finally, Schampus-Charlie can be moved one space in the direction of your own restaurant if a person is standing on the two spaces in the entrance area (one step for each person) or Lilli and the two bodyguards are completely on their own half of the field.

The game ends as soon as either Brilli-Lilli or Schampus-Charlie enters the entrance area of ​​one of the two bars. In this case, the owner of the pub is the winner of the game. Alternatively, the game ends when the draw pile is completely empty for the second time; in that case the player whose half is Brilli-Lilli wins. If this is in the middle, the position of Schampus-Charlie decides on the victory.

Development and reception

The game Auf der Reeperbahn at half past one was developed by the German game author Reiner Knizia and published in 2006 by Kosmos Spiele in the series Games for Two in German and by Rio Grande Games in English as Time Square . In a contemporary presentation of the game in the Handelsblatt by Joachim Wollschläger, the game is set in the context of “Hamburg, where the Reeperbahn was really still the amusement district for seafarers and a neighborhood where almost everyone knew everyone” and the game critic Harald Schrapers wrote in the trade journal Fairplay of "really wicked fun". The latter praised the abstract course of the game, but found it somewhat clouded by the luck factor when drawing cards.

In 2016, based on the game, a game called King & Jester was published in Japanese by the Japanese publisher cosaic. In 2019 IELLO released the game Royal Visit first in a French version and in 2020 in an English version, which is also based on Auf der Reeperbahn at half past one at night .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g On the Reeperbahn at half past one at night. (PDF; 1.46 MB) Instructions for use. In: kosmos.de. Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. KG, 2006, accessed on May 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Versions of Royal Visit / Time Square in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English); accessed on April 27, 2020.
  3. ↑ Joachim Wollschläger: On the Reeperbahn. Hamburg very nostalgic , in: Handelsblatt , May 25, 2007; accessed on June 3, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b Harald Schrapers : On the Reeperbahn at half past one at night. on gamesweplay.de, 2006 - Copy of an article that appeared in the trade journal Fairplay, April – June 2006 issue.

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