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Wallis's complete Voyage Round the World: a new geographical pastime
Wallis's complete Voyage Round the World: a new geographical pastime
by John Wallis (1796)
Player Count
2 to 6

Playing Time
1 hour
Categories
  • Educational
  • Travel
  • Mechanisms
  • Roll / Spin and Move
  • Point to Point Movement
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    Description

    A double hemisphere map of the world overlaid with a point-to-point track. Players start at Portsmouth (#1) and roll an eight-sided teetotum (dice were heavily taxed in Britain at the time) to move along the track, trying to get to London (#100).
    Each space has a description to help the player learn about the place he is visiting, and some have favourable or unfavourable effects.
    e.g. #62. Hudson's Bay - the English have several forts. Stay one turn and trade with the natives for beaver and other rich skins and fur."
    Like the Game of Goose, there is a 'death' space (Magellan Straights #89) where "the traveller is shipwrecked and loses his chance of the game".
    The game was published until at least 1802.

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