Mensch argere Dich nicht, German for "Man, don't get angry," is a race game created by Josef Friedrich Schmidt in a workshop in Munich-Giesing in 1907 or 1908 and first published in 1910, with Schmidt Spiele issuing the now-familiar edition in 1914. Two to four players, or up to six using the reverse side of the board, race four pegs each around a shared track toward a home row, and a peg landing on an opponent's piece sends that piece back to its starting area, the same collision mechanic later popularized in the American game Sorry! Around seventy million copies have sold since 1914, and it remains one of the most widely played board games across Germany and other European countries.
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Sport
Game Type (category) Classification
Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Connections
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Germany, found in there.
Sources
1. Mensch ärgere Dich nicht (Wikipedia)
Infobox, game type
Race game; Cross and circle game
Infobox, players
2 to 4 (2 to 6 on reverse side)
Lead, first sentence
is a German race game developed by Josef Friedrich Schmidt in 1907/1908
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