Danziger Heimat-Spiel

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Description

Objective: be the first passing finish line (field 100 ==> Baltic sea spa Zoppot) - moving by turn/'Roll and Move' game - each player starts at 'Bischofsberg' and throws the die moving foreward according rolled number; landing on a marked area follow instructions printed on cover inside similar to 'Game of Goose', but linking all places in and around Gdansk before WW II. The game can be classified as a 'children game' due to mechanics, but very often these types of games were played by adults combined with more or less high wagers for each participant; winner usually got 50% of total amount, 2nd and 3rd the rest The game was produced by the Rucks & Co. GmbH about 1949 after the artist Erich Scholtis moved to Kiel. It was produced till well after 1959 when the artist moved to Aachen. The last editions were published in the 1970s.