Germany trip

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Germany trip
Game data
author Jochen Zeiss
publishing company Ravensburger
Publishing year 1962
Art Exploration game
Teammates 2 to 6
Duration 30-60 minutes
Age from 8 years

Deutschlandreise is a board game that was designed as an educational game for children and young people.

game

It was first published by Ravensburger Verlag in 1962 and was aimed at two to six players aged 8 and over. The original edition shows the playing field of what was then the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic and on the edge of the game board a small area beyond the Oder-Neisse border . Newer editions with a modified map of Germany appeared after the Warsaw Treaty had been ratified in 1974 and 1977.

The current edition of the Deutschlandreise (from 1995) has a double-sided schedule. On the one hand, Germany is shown in a topographical representation with images of various sights; on the reverse, the political division into federal states . However, both do not differ in the cities or possible routes.

Game flow

It comes with game characters to travel through Germany, where you can explore by drawing cards cities. This is the way to get to know Germany. Material was available in the original edition from 1962:

  • the game board, which is a map with cities, streets, etc. of Germany.
  • cube
  • 204 city ​​cards in different colors with information on the individual cities
  • 8 telegrams (serve as event cards)
  • 6 pawns and 6 flags that can be inserted to mark your home town

Edition from 1977

This edition contained:

  • 1 double-sided game board (once Germany topographically and once as a map with icons for the 69 sights, see below)
  • 6 sided dice
  • 100 city cards (32 green in the north, 36 red in the middle and 32 orange in the south, some of the cities are also in neighboring countries)
  • 69 information cards on sights (when visiting the city in question, the instructions had to be carried out; this ranged from abandoning, for example, looking at the Stendal Cathedral to rolling the dice again after visiting the bread museum in Ulm).
  • 6 pawns with flags of the same color for the hometown
  • 6 flight plans (a flight cost one die point, but you could only fly once per train)
  • 11 lucky cards (optional, a player received such a card on his third "1", it was free to decide when the card should be used).

1995 edition

The current edition contains:

  • 1 double-sided game board
  • 1 dice with the values ​​1 to 5 and an empty side
  • 204 city ​​maps in four different colors with pictures and information on the individual cities
  • 52 action cards for four different actions
  • 1 target flag to mark the common home town
  • 6 pawns

procedure

The player's hometown is determined by chance and by drawing 7 additional city cards, the route through Germany is determined. With the dice the player now travels through the country, whereby he has to visit all cities on his journey. The visit is documented by storing the card . Whoever visited all locations first and got back to his hometown wins the game. With a certain cube constellation, the telegrams are used, which occupy all too fast travelers with additional tasks .

1995 edition

In the current edition, the players determine a common hometown, which is marked with the flag. Each player receives 8 city cards and 8 action cards. Before the move, a player can choose whether he wants to roll the dice or act with an action card . If he rolls a value, he moves according to the number on the dice, if he rolls the empty side of the die, he draws an action card from the stack and has the opportunity to carry out the action. The player can use action cards to fly to cities directly, jump to other players, assign these additional goals or bring them back to him. The first two actions are primarily used to accelerate the course of the game, the last two to hinder other players in their course of the game.

Adaptations

  • In 1968 the author Zeiss followed up on the success of the trip to Germany . The publisher brought the " Weltreise" onto the market. The graphics and material of this game were revised again in 2003. It works on the same principle as its predecessor, only the players should now get to know countries and cities by means of a world tour .
  • In 1980 Ravensburger Spieleverlag brought out the game Europareise , which was based on a similar principle . No author was named.
  • Before the German reunification in 1989, the board game DDR-Reise was created by the Fürth game publisher Klee .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://luding.org/Skripte/GameData.py/DEgameid/14797
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://luding.org/Skripte/GameData.py/DEgameid/557 In the game, which is heavily based on luck, flight connections within Europe were now used.
  4. ↑ http://www.spieletest.at/spiel.php?ID=241
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Kramer on the 2007 issue.