Mille Bornes (1954)

One Thousand Milestones. On French roads there are small marker stones giving the distance in kilometres to the next town. In this famous old French card game, players compete to drive 1000 km, dealing with hazards along the way. Draw a card to your hand, play or discard. You must lay a green traffic light to start, play cards showing mileage, dump hazards (flat tire, speed limit) on the other players, remedy hazards (spare tire, end of limit) from yourself, play safety cards (puncture proof), and try to be the first to clock up the distance.

Re-implements:

• Touring

Re-implemented by:

• Grass
• Pain Doctors
• Race Cards (Darrell Waltrip Presents Race Cards, The Stock Car Racing Game)
• Online: Internet Card Game

Online Play

• CCG Workshop (no longer available)

When the Dujardin Company released the 1st edition of this game in the 1950's, they added for promotional reasons a black-and-white printed voucher with the game. If you sent 4 of these vouchers to the company, you got a high-quality enamel keyring, fixed onto a black lizard-structured leather plate for free. They came in a small cardboard box with some notes from the designing artist.

Later on they released another keyring, this time in silver-metal-design with another 1000 Bornes logo embedded.

Both items are desirable additions for the ambitious game collector.

Awards

• Games Magazine Hall of Fame Inductee.

Contents (Winning Moves Version):

• Pack of Cards (110)
  • 106 Play Cards
  • 2 Score Cards
  • 2 Guide Cards
• Card Tray
• Rules Booklet (w/Scoresheets)

At one time (back in the 1960's and early 1970's) Parker Brothers claimed that Mille Bornes was their second largest selling game in France. What was number one? Monopoly of course!!