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Race around the World

Plan your solo trip

Travel to destinations, visit pre-selected cities and return to the city where you started from; all that sounds very familiar and very simple, but here is works differently yet from all the other games of this kind. You do not resolve event or location cards, need not answer questions or collect items; you only draw a line for your travel route on a transparent sheet placed over a map, starting at given or freely chosen city. You adhere to these basic rules: You can visit each city only once, paths can cross and can be used more than once; when you return to the start a closed circle must result; you can only travel in direction of the arrows and can only change direction on marked special spots.

These tasks are set for very different maps with exact lists of the cities you must connect or other tasks you must comply with; there are some tasks with special goals like “Start in Iceland, visit each fishing ground only once and end your journey in the USA” or “Start at the base camp, visit all camps in any order you like and end up on the summit”. Altogether there are 24 tasks in three different levels of difficulty. The task to form a closed circle is only valid when mentioned on an individual task card. All tasks are also marked with a time within which you should complete the task

Basically this is very simple and yet it is a huge challenge especially also due to the fact that contrary to other puzzles of this kind there are no solutions provided. So you have to think for yourself and find the correct path to the Summit of the Himalaya yourself.

Players: 1

Age: 8+

Time: 5+

Designer: Katelyn Victory, Elisabeth West, D’nykia Frost, Michelle Els

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 17 Euro

Publisher: Mind Challenge 2011

Web: www.hcm-kinzel.eu

Genre: Logic puzzle with a travel topic

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Version: de

Rules: de en and others

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Result of the “Exercise your Mind Challenge” contest

Compares to:

Anaconda and other logic puzzles with path formation, Travel games with routes back to the start

Other editions:

In 14 languages

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