Tourne case is a historical French tables game belonging to the same family of games as backgammon, played by two people and traditionally recommended for children age five and older. The game traces to the French Renaissance, with an early reference appearing in Rabelais's Gargantua in 1532, and its formal rules were later set down in French gaming manuals published across the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. A typical game lasts around fifteen minutes and combines dice-driven chance with counting and positional strategy in the manner of other tables games in the backgammon family, making it part of the long European tradition of race games played on a divided board with dice.
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1. Tourne case (Wikipedia)
- Infobox 'players' field: 2
- Infobox genre/type field: "Board game; Race game; Dice game"
Infobox: playing_time
15 minutes
Infobox: ages
5+
Infobox: random_chance
medium-high (dice rolling)
View the Source2. Tourne-case (BoardGameGeek)
- Origin Year: 1600
- Playing Time: 20
- Designer: (Uncredited)
- Publisher: (Public Domain)
- Game Category: Abstract Strategy
- Game Mechanic: Race
- Game Mechanic: Roll / Spin and Move
- Minimum Players: 2
- Maximum Players: 2
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