Animal Husbandry (game)

Animal Husbandry, in Polish Hodowla zwierzątek, is a dice game that the Polish mathematician Karol Borsuk invented and published at his own expense in 1943, during the German occupation of Warsaw. He sold it to support his family after the occupation authorities closed Warsaw University and he lost his job. His wife Zofia made the first sets by hand, with animal drawings by Janina Borsuk, and the game was among the first to use twelve-sided dice. Players trade sets of animals for higher value ones and roll two dice to multiply their herds, while a wolf, a fox and other special results can cost them animals. In the modern edition the aim is to own one each of a rabbit, sheep, pig, cow and horse. Copies were long thought lost in the Warsaw Uprising until a set turned up in the 1990s, and the game returned as Superfarmer and later in English as Have You Herd.