Mille Bornes

Description: This game is also known as "Thousand Miles", "Thousand Stones", or "Mile Stones". / You're cruising along at 100 mph, ... more

Mille Bornes ... bolstered by an extra tank of gas, when suddenly your opponent cuts you off with a flat-tire card. You slam to a halt, sidelined until you draw a spare tire. It's a 1,000-mile race along an imaginary road; your goal is to arrive first, avoiding the hazards--flat tires, accidents, empty gas tanks--while inflicting them on your opponents and collecting the spares and repairs that will speed you on. The absorbing Mille Bornes (French for 1,000 milestones and pronounced "meel born") has easy-to-follow rules of the road: green means go; red means stop; obey the speed limit at all times. You might even pick up a few words in French.

Newest Review: ... pile. In order to start the race you have to put down "green light" card and after that you can start building up ... more

... mileage to reach your 'destination'. But it isn't as simple as that, since your opponents will try to stop you or slow you down along the way. This is done by their hitting you with hazard cards, the mildest of which are the "speed limit" card (when you can't put down mile cards above 50 miles) and "red light" cards (which stop you until you put down a "green light" card), but you can also run out of gas, get a flat tire or get into an accident. To counteract these hazards, th...more

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Mille Bornes: One Thousand What? (1042 words)
by - written on 23/07/07 (Very useful, 170 readings)
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Here's an old card game that I remember from my childhood (and that's a long time ago, since I just turned 50) that my family still loves to play. It is called Mille Bornes, which is French for "1000 miles" (okay, so they still haven't gone metric, but who cares) and it is seductively simple to learn, and totally fun to play. The object of each hand is to be the first person to put down mileage cards that add up to exactly 1000 miles. There is a shorter version for playing with only two players where the first person to reach 700 miles can either end the game or continue on to 1000 miles. If you're playing with an even number of more than two ... Read the complete review

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