The game (dice game)

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The game
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Game data
author Reinhold Wittig
graphic Mathias Wittig
publishing company Edition Guinea Fowl (1979),
Franckh-Kosmos (1986),
Abacusspiele (2004), a
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Publishing year 1979
Art Dice games
Teammates 1 to 6
Duration differently
Age from 8 years

Awards

Game of the Year : Special Prize "Nice Game" 1980

Game platform

The game is a dice game by the game designer Reinhold Wittig . It was published in 1979 by Wittig's Spieleverlag Edition Perlhuhn and received the special prize “Beautiful Game” in 1980 from the jury for Game of the Year . In 1986 the game was re-published by Franckh-Kosmos . In 2004 a new edition of Abacusspiele appeared with only 166 dice, which can be extended by the 2005 published game 55 .

Game material

1 game platform
281 game dice in the four colors blue, green, red and black, (10 blue, 90 red, 90 green, 90 black, 1 gold dice)

particularities

Reinhold Wittig produced the game platform on which the dice can be stacked on top of each other and then encouraged buyers to also invent their own games with this game material:

I've been asked many times how to do that, invent games. I would now like to add a short one to the answers, which perhaps best shows the many different possibilities of a game invention. This answer is also a request:

Games!

Make up your own rules for the cube pyramid. Play with numbers, with colors, with randomness and above all with fun!

It says on the Spielonaut website

Since the game comes from the eighties, which always strived for commitment and creativity, a time when mere “consumption” was frowned upon even among game fans, author Reinhold Wittig deliberately avoided rules in the first edition - you should come up with some yourself.

With the gaming platform and the 281 dice, more than 50 different games can be played, including strategy games as well as games of chance and games of skill . You can use the dice either as game pieces or as building material. A whole series of games is also suitable for three participants without any player being favored or disadvantaged.

If there was a booklet with more than 50 games in the first edition, there are only five left, with a new one being added. But the players are still called upon to design their own games and send them to the manufacturer. Abacusspiele wants to publish the most interesting proposals on its website.

The non-fiction author and player inventor Erwin Glonnegger particularly highlights this game in his game book by writing:

This game is a milestone on the way in Germany at the end of the 20th century to a culture of parlor games that has been unique since then.

Game variants

The more than 50 play options are divided into the following categories:

  1. Games of skill
  2. Gambling
  3. Two special games
  4. Building games
  5. Remodeling games
  6. Dismantling games
  7. Board games
  8. Tactics in 3-D
  9. My game

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 55 in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English)
  2. ↑ The game at cliquenabend.de
  3. ↑ The game ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at spielonaut.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spielonaut.de
  4. ↑ Erwin Glonnegger : The games book

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