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Creator:
Geographia Ltd
Title(s):
Touring Scotland : an entirely new map game, requiring skill and judgement.
Published/Created:
London : "Geographia" Ltd., [1951?]
Physical Description:
1 game ; game board 50 x 37 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
GV1199.G46 T68 1951 Flat A
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
"Devised by P.H. Thorpe, F.R.G.S."--Instruction booklet.
Game pieces include: a game board; four lead cars of varying colors; 32 numbered cards, each naming a city or town in Scotland (along with a brief fact about the town); a die, and a shaker. "Each player has dealt to him two cards of each colour, making eight cards in all. Each player arranges his eight cards so as to form a journey or tour by the shortest route, starting and finishing at the same town."--Instruction booklet.
Title from label on an exterior of game board.
Undated. The populations given for Glasgow and Edinburgh are those of the 1951 census.
Subject Terms:
Geographical recreations -- Specimens.
Scotland -- Description and travel.
Scotland -- Maps.
Form/Genre:
Board games.
Maps.
Games -- Great Britain.
Recreations -- Great Britain.
Contributors:
Thorpe, P. H.
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