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Artist
Publisher
Year Published
1973
# of Players
2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 4, 5 players
Recommended with 3, 4, 5, 6 players
(28 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
45 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
8 and up
User Suggested Ages
8 and up
(9 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet
(9 voters) [poll]
Honors
Subdomain
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Category
Mechanic
Expansion
Expands
Family
Primary Name
Hare & Tortoise
Alternate Names
Britvic Strategy
Haas en Schildpad
Hare and Tortoise
Haren och sköldpaddan
Haren og Skildpadden
Haren og Skilpadden
Hase und Igel
La Liebre y la Tortuga
Le Lièvre et la Tortue
Voltinger & Wattinger
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As the first winner of the Spiel des Jahres award in 1979, Hare and Tortoise or the German Hase und Igel (for Hare and Hedgehog) will always be regarded as a classic game. It is a cunningly designed race to the finish in which your fuel (carrots) must practically run out (all but 10 carrots or fewer) at the moment you hit the finish line. You also have three lettuce cards you must spend during the course of the race. The farther you move, the more carrots you spend, and there are a variety of ways to gain or lose carrots as you go around the track. It's a very clever exercise in arithmetic which David Parlett has fashioned into an entertaining and unique perennial favorite.

There have several variations between the multiple prints of Hare & Tortoise by different publishers. Most variations come from methods of adding randomness that favor lagging player via cards, dice, or dice charts when landing on a Hare square.

  • Parlett Strategic Variant--The designer's preferred way of playing the Hare square is that "... you can land on them [Hare square], but must miss a turn. This would be the equivalent of the hare taking a nap, as in Aesop's fable. This is the rule I most favour and would prefer it to simply not landing on them at all..."
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Hare and Tortoise
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Gibson Games edition 2010
Publisher: Gibsons Games
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Year: 2010
Size: Medium Square (e.g. Ticket to Ride)
2.43 pounds
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Third German edition ("Unsere besten Familienspiele")
Publisher: Ravensburger
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Year: 2007
Size: Long Rectangle (e.g. Power Grid)
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Dutch edition
Publisher: 999 Games
Artist: Franz Vohwinkel
Year: 2001
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Rio Grande English Edition
Publisher: Rio Grande Games
Artist: Franz Vohwinkel
Year: 2000
Product Code: 149
Size: 14.50 x 10.62 x 1.25 inches
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Abacus multilingual edition
Publisher: ABACUSSPIELE
Artist: Franz Vohwinkel
Year: 2000
Size: 14.49 x 10.63 x 1.26 inches
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2 [Español] Reglas Hase und Igel
Manual completo de las reglas de la versión Ravensburguer de Hase und Igel con imagenes. La traducción fue hecha en base a varios archivos, principalmente el subudi por BGG en Febrero de 2001
2011-12-27
0 Carrot Costs (up to 48 spaces) based off of the original Hare and Tortoise cheatsheet
I took the carrot card cheat sheet card that game with the original intellect game and added a second table that showed the carrot costs from 25-48 spaces. Put the two next to each other and boom, you got a player screen. The sheets are letter-sized and I have two layouts, one with two screens on a landscape sheet, the other with three screens on a portrait sheet. [IMAGEID=1181543]
2011-12-18
4 Jugging card in Greek
Juggiing Card (old style) in Greek O prwtos pinakas tou sxediasti (gia ti thesi tou lagou) sta ellinika
2011-03-06
0 Cartas liebre de la edicion 2008 en castellano
Paste-up en castellano para las hasenkarte de la edicion ravensburger 2008
2009-09-08
5 Rules in Spanish
Reglas en español
2009-07-13
5 Jugging the Hare Cards -- Ravensburger 2008 edition pdf and MS Word files
The source MS Word Document for the cards
2008-06-21
1 Regole in italiano
Regole in italiano migliorate per la stampa.
2008-02-26
0 Carte lepre per l'edizione 2008
Traduzione in italiano delle carte lepre in base a quanto spiegato da David Parlett sul suo sito.
2008-02-12
1 Concise reference sheet by hecose
Concise reference sheet for teaching the game and easy reference
2007-12-29
2 Hare and Tortoise rules
Rules in Brazilian Portuguese
2007-11-29
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 579
Family Game Rank: 145
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