Hare and Tortoise

Game of the Year 1979 The Golden Pawns 1979-1984: each place 1 to 3

Hare and Tortoise is a board game in which a race is simulated. The game does not need any cube, the strategic elements outweigh the few lucky influences by the event cards. It was invented in 1973 by Englishman David Parlett. 1974, was published by Intellect Games as Hare and Tortoise ( Hase and turtle) in the UK. Published in 1978 Ravensburger the family game in Germany. It was in 1979 awarded the first game with the price game of the year. Meanwhile, more than 2 million copies have been sold in 10 languages. 2000 saw Abacusspiele a German edition out as Hase & Igel.

Regulate

The players make with their game characters rabbits dar. mitrennende Each rabbit has decided to start 68 carrots and 98 carrots from five players and three salads as feed in the form of cards available and may even, in which field he wants to hobble. The salads have to go be "eaten " on so-called lettuce fields and in the end one can only get a certain number of carrots with the finish.

Essential in the game is to pay the train wide, what more consumed more carrots, the further you hobbles. How much is a bouncer from three fields 1 2 3 = 6 carrots, a bouncer of four fields but already 1 2 3 4 = 10 carrots. In order not to be reckoned as much, each player receives a race card on which the costs are already calculated. As compensation and replacement of carrot food you can pull back on so-called hedgehog fields, which contributes 10 times the number of fields in carrots. The prediction of the correct own position in the race to bring a certain item fields carrots.

A bit of luck there on the hare fields. There you put an event card that brings positive and negative events with them.

Victory Conditions

The winner is the one bunny who comes first on the target field. However, he must then bear no salad and no more than ten carrots with it. So who has collected the move too much, can rest on certain fields ( suspend ) and thereby eat ten carrots. Another way to get rid of excess beets, is a long retreat to a hedgehog field. This additional food is obtained while, but the big jump to the finish then consumed more than the acquired previously.

Changes in the new edition

The publisher Abacus Games has made some changes to the fields placement and the hare cards rules in the new edition. By now much lower failing random factor, the game is still concerned with tactics and strategy. The game has become not only in Germany a classic of board games.