Tock

Tock ( in certain parts of Canada, also known as Tuck, in French: Le jeu de toc, Switzerland: Dog in the Netherlands: Keezen, German version: TAC ) is a Pachisi offspring, especially in Quebec, the Netherlands and is widespread in Switzerland.

The game stands out is that it is played like the well-known in the English speaking Wahoo or aggravation with most issues with marbles instead of pawns. Likewise, the cube is missing. Played instead with Bridge cards, similar to the game Sorry! . The game Tock is probably the precursor of Sorry! .

  • 3.1 History of Dog
  • 3.2 Variants

Game material

The game consists of a game board (usually made ​​of wood) with recesses for the marbles, marbles sixteen in four colors to four piece and a Bridge card deck. There are game board versions for up to six players and versions for up to eight players.

Game rules

For first four players, each player receives thirteen cards allocated ( distributed in packages of five - four - four cards). ( Four cards dealt in packets of five - four - - four), the remaining map is discarded With three players each player is dealt 17 cards are dealt. With two players, each receives 26 cards ( distributed in packages of five each - five - four - four - four - four cards).

The value of the cards in ascending order from ace (1 step ) to the king (13 steps ).

The aim of the game is to start from the field ( with the number 18 of the marble color) to draw all your own marbles in the four target fields of the same color. In this case, all the marbles have to take the course around once.

To pull a marble, the player must play a king or an ace. If he has neither ace nor king, then he must take another card, but can not pull out, but must skip a turn. If a marble on an occupied field, it will be defeated and will be removed from the game. The opposing player they must bring into play again with an ace or king. If the player has more marbles in the game, he can choose which he wants to move, or if he brings a new marble into play.

There are abbreviations: Once a marble is standing on a box with the number 8, it can be set with an ace, a 10 or in the middle of the game board a king ( called "heaven "). From there, the marble must have been then drawn on any field with number 8.

Can be made ​​more difficult the game with the following additional rules: In a four the marble four fields must be pulled backwards. With a ten, the player may change places his marble with a marble of an opponent. With a boy the other players must discard one card left hand.

Team play

The two sitting opposite players form a team. The team wins, which have all own marbles drawn into the corresponding target fields. After the cards have been dealt, the team members one card exchange with each other, without being able to speak it. If all of the marbles of a team member in the target fields, so move both team members, the murmur of the other player with their cards. Again, no verbal tactical matches take place. Any custom marble on the game board blocked the field. Can not own marbles are moved because of such blockade, so the player has a card remote. Enemy marbles can be beaten. That, however, be drawn exactly on the corresponding field. Team Members are free to decide whether they want to hit marbles of the partner or whether they place a card instead. All steps of a card must be used up. Therefore, a player with his marbles to pass by its target fields if it can not involve. A voluntary passage to the target fields is over, however, also allowed. Lands a figure at the end of a train on a target field, it can be drawn in the future only within the target fields.

Cards and their meanings

  • 2, 3: Pull out as many fields as the card value.
  • 4: Pull back four fields.
  • 5, 6: Pull out as many fields as the card value.
  • 7: Seven steps can be distributed to several marbles, so that one moves one space and the remaining movement points with another marble, for example in the target. In the target areas, a marble can be moved in both directions.
  • 8, 9, 10: the card value ahead.
  • Jack: Eleven fields pull or two figures on the playing field exchange ( one of these figures must be your own ).
  • Lady: Twelve fields draw.
  • King: Thirteen fields draw or put a figure from his own camp on the start space.
  • Ass: A field ahead or figure put out of the camp to the start box.
  • It is sometimes also played with jokers that can be used to replace any card.

All the cards are stored open in the middle of the board. A card's color is irrelevant.

Dog in Switzerland

The game has become established in Switzerland in a slightly different form. It also means not " Tock " but " Dog ", which is due to a linguistic misunderstanding. It is played with slightly different rules.

History of Dog

Christine Trösch from St. Gallen Tock 1982, discovered in a residence and Canada over the playing surface on paper and brought to Switzerland. With her boyfriend at the time and today's husband Urs Meyer she put the first game here. They called the game " Dog ". Some friends copied in the following years the boards. The rules were first written down in 1987 by Anja Noser and only transmitted orally until then. Since 1987, the boards are manufactured in various workshops. Since 1993, first tournaments take place.

Variants

Since 2012, Schmidt offers games at a " Dog -Royal ' version, in which the pawns individual properties and have a hierarchy ( king, knights, citizens, fool ). Higher-tier figures lower block and can only exceptionally be outdated. When you reach a special field, a card is drawn. There are also magnets, copiers and green cards as a new movement cards. The magnet can own figure to the next before her recumbent figure unlock. The copier repeats the last card played, while the ranking of the figures is not in force at the green cards. Lands a player with his figure on a black special fields, he may draw an additional card from the deck.

TAC

TAC is a game of Karl Wenning and Kolya Sparrer, who refers to himself in the TAC Forum (User TAC) as intense connoisseurs of Dog. It was introduced after three years of development, 2004 in Essen. It is sold through an online store as well as " TAC ambassadors" from the TAC community. The TAC plank of wood is high quality made ​​in Germany and is correspondingly expensive. Nevertheless, there are over 4000 TAC boards, mainly in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. A six- TAC (as well as the normal four - TAC) offered as a fine wood version. A smaller and cheaper version was introduced in late October 2008.

TAC differs from Tock and Dog by some rule details and by using an independently designed card game of 104 cards that make the number cards from 1 to 13 and Special card shark ( the boy in Tock ) and TAC ( train the previous player reversed and the map use for themselves) contains, plus four so-called master card warriors, angels, devils and fool for a game variant. What is a variant with Tock, TAC is mandatory: the four moves backward, the night can be exposed and it is played in teams. A Sky as a shortcut does not exist. Particularly complex formed by the four TAC cards because a TAC also itself can be geTACt again. The " triple geTACte trickster " is notorious.

Besides the game in teams against each other, the so-called harmony variant in which all players try with as little cards all the houses to occupy fully exist. This variant can be played either with the standard, the master version and also on the 6- TAC.

Also within TAC, there are variants: the master version with the master cards, solitaire game, play in pairs or threes, and " four of team " a cooperative game form. The teamorienterte approach has also led to the use of TAC in the educational field, but it would be a misunderstanding, TAC therefore be regarded as a " therapist tool ".

The TAC community holds regular competitions. 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013 there was a World Cup, 2010 German Cup. For the harmony version there is the possibility of official Weltrekordversuchevorzunehmen on competitions and fairs. An online TAC is in the testing phase.

References:

  • TAC in the games database BoardGameGeek (English)
  • TAC in the games database Luding

Different game boards

In the Canadian and French Tock boards there are per player 18 fields that need to be overcome in Keezen and TAC there are only 16 (not as in Ludo 17). When Dog is 15 or 16 fields depending on the manufacturer. When TAC for six players, the number of fields is reduced to eleven per person. The Canadian and French Tock boards fields are numbered, while most of the Dog, as well Keezen boards have change of direction, they are located for TAC in a circle. The ability to shorten a train through the middle that knows only the Canadian and the French version. In Holland there is also a provider of 2, and even a 3, a 5 Series and 7 Series offer a game plan.

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