Description

This was a world travel game published as a promotional feature in the 1930s by Japanese company King Star. The presence of the Nazi flag and of Berlin as a short-cut space, together with the absence of a Soviet Union flag, suggests that it was published shortly after the 1936 Anti-Comintern Pact.

The board has a circular track made up mostly of national flags. There also are two straight tracks the cross the board at right angles. These are possible shortcuts.

Players roll dice and move one of their three planes forward by the number shown. If a plane lands on Mount Fuji, it can take the shortcut across to Mount Everest, which takes only 8 spaces instead of 22. If a plane on the shortcut lands on the North Pole, the central space, it can turn toward Berlin and reach the finish line in only five spaces. A second shortcut is possible by landing on the Airship space, directly across from the finish line. This allows the plane to skip the second half of the circle. The first player to get all three players to the finish line wins.

While the theme is about pleasure travel, competition is cutthroat. Any plane landing on the same space as another one "shoots down" the first plane, sending it back to start.

The rules are printed on the back of the board and appear in Japanese, English and Spanish.

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