Trunk

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Trunk
Game data
author Alex Randolph
graphic Rolf Vogt
publishing company Schmidt games ( three magicians )
Publishing year 2001
Art Cooperative children's game
Teammates 2 to 7
Duration 20 minutes
Age from 4 years

Awards

Rüsselbande is a children's game by the American game designer Alex Randolph . The game for two to seven players, ages six and up, lasts around 20 minutes per round. It was published in 2001 by the Drei Magier Spiele publishing house , which later became the children's play brand of Schmidt Spiele . In the same year the game was nominated for children's game of the year .

Theme and equipment

In Rüsselbande is a dice board game, which is about a pig race. The players each have to bring their pig to the destination as quickly as possible over a course, whereby these are partly stacked on top of each other due to the narrow path. The winner is the player who reaches the end of the circuit first with his pig.

In addition to the instructions, the contents of the game box consist of eight map pieces that are put together to form the racetrack, seven wooden piglet figures in different colors, seven wooden discs and a six-sided die . The cube has sides 1, 1 and 3 in black and 2, 3 and 4 in red.

Style of play

Before the game, the race track is combined from the eight track parts as desired, so that it can be extended at any time, and each player receives a piglet and a wooden disc in the same color. A selected starting player (“who's next birthday”) receives the dice and all piglets are placed in front of the first part of the route on the starting line.

The game is played in clockwise order. The active player throws the dice and moves his piglet forward by the number of pips thrown. If the player rolls a black 1, he may roll the dice and move again. If the player rolls a black 3, he may roll the dice again and move if his piglet was last in the race before the throw. If a piglet lands on a field on which there is already another piglet, it is placed on this and the lower piglets must take all piglets on it with them when they move. Once in the game, each player may add one tile to the path. To do this, he uses his wooden disc and takes the foremost tile, which he places at the back of the path. The tile must be empty, however, so there must be no piglet on it.

The player whose pig reaches or crosses the last space on the last path tile first wins the game. If there are other piglets on it, they have won together with their carrier.

Expenses and reception

The game Rüsselbande was developed by Alex Randolph and published in 2001 by the game publisher Drei Magier Spiele in a multilingual version, which later became the children's brand of Schmidt Spiele . As a result, other language versions of the game were released by different publishers: In 2003 the game was released by Tactic in Swedish (“Snabba Grisar”), Norwegian (“Griseflukten”), Danish (“Griseflugten”), Dutch (“Vrolijke biggetjes”) and Finnish ("Saparoralli"). Drei Magier published the game in 2004 in French ("La Bande des Porcelets") and in German as a mini-trunk. In 2013 Devir published an Iberian version in Spanish and Portuguese ("La cuadrilla de los cerditos") and Lion Rampant Imports published an English and French version for the North American market ("The Piggyback Brigade").

In 2001, alongside Im Märchenwald by Markus Nikisch and Klondike by Stefanie Rohner and Christian Wolf, the game was nominated for the first children's game of the year , with Klondike prevailing against the competition.

The transport element of the trunk was subsequently integrated into other games. It appears in the children's game Spinderella , in which ants can be transported by others, and in the family game Camel Up , a camel race with a “piggyback” option.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Rüsselbande in the database of the Spiel des Jahres eV, accessed on July 16, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d e game instructions Rüsselbande , Schmidt Spiele
  3. ↑ Versions of Rüsselbande in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English); accessed on July 14, 2019.

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