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The Game

Das Spiel (German name)
The Game
Designers	Reinhold Wittig
Illustrators	Guido Hoffmann
Publishers	Edition Perlhuhn (1979) Franckh-Kosmos (1986) Abacusspiele (2004)
Years active	1979 to present
Players	1 to 6
Website	Edition Perlhuhn Abacusspiele

The Game is a dice game designed by Reinhold Wittig. It was first published in Germany in 1979, without rules and under the German name Das Spiel.

It contains a triangular base plate and 281 dice of four different colours, and a rule book that gives rules for some 50+ games. Most of the games are centered on building or demolishing pyramids of dice, but there are also racing games and games of skill. The game has been originally published by Diego Rodriguez (Reinhold Wittig), Göttingen, in 1979.

The Game won the 1980 Spiel des Jahres special award for "most beautiful game".

In his preface Wittig writes:

I've often been asked how you go about it to invent a game. I want to add one answer now. Is perhaps the best answer possible to show the many different ways of designing a game. The answer is also a challenge: Invent rules of your own to my dice pyramid.

The first edition of the game was a small version of the dice pyramid, without any rules. Over time, players contributed their own rules to a collection.

Reviews

• Jeux & Stratégie #47 (as "Le Jeu")

See also

• Game design

References

1. ^ Glonneger, Erwin (1999). Das Spiele-Buch (in German) (Neue u. erg. A. ed.). Drei Magier Verlag. ISBN 3-9806792-0-9.
   • "Das Spiele-Buch". Spielbox (in German). Archived from the original on 2015-03-21.
2. ^ "Spiel von Reinhold Wittig und anderen (1979)" (in English and German). Edition Perlhuhn. Retrieved 2009-03-20.
3. "Abacusspiele: Das Spiel" (in German). Abacusspiele. Retrieved 2009-03-20.
4. "Das Spiel - Rulebook" (PDF). Abacusspiele. Retrieved 2009-03-20.
5. "Das Spiel - Rulebook" (PDF) (in German). Abacusspiele. Retrieved 2009-03-20.
6. "Spiel des Jahres - Awards 1980" (in German). Spiel des Jahres. Retrieved 2009-03-20.
7. "Jeux & stratégie 47". October 1987.

External links

• The Game at BoardGameGeek

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