Mille Bornes
Modern edition
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| Manufacturer(s) | Winning Moves |
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| Designer(s) | Edmond Dujardin, born in Ecuador and raised in France |
| Illustrator(s) | Joseph Le Callennec |
| Publication date | 1954 |
| Genre(s) | Take That |
| Language(s) | English / French |
| Skill(s) required | Medium |
| Media type | Cards |
Mille Bornes (/ˌmɪl ˈbɔːrn/; French for a thousand milestones, referring to the stone distance markers on many French roads) is a French card game. Mille Bornes is listed in the GAMES Magazine Hall of Fame.
The game was created in 1954 by Edmond Dujardin, and was quite similar to the earlier American automotive card game Touring. A key innovation was the addition of the coup-fourré, whereby bonus points are earned by holding back a safety card (such as the puncture-proof tire) until an opponent plays the corresponding hazard card (in this case, the flat tire).
Some Mille Bornes decks are printed in both English and French. The Spanish version Mil Hitos, distributed by Heraclio Fournier, was very popular in Spain during the 1970s. In the Netherlands there is a variant of this game, , which deals with cycling instead of driving. The hazards and distances are different, but the mechanics of the game are exactly the same.
The premise of Mille Bornes is that the players are in a road race. Each race—or hand—is usually 700 miles (or kilometers) long, but the first player to complete that distance exactly has the option to declare an extension in which case the race becomes 1,000 miles. Other times the game is played up to 1000 miles first, and then the first player to complete that distance has the option to declare an "extension" for 1,200 miles. Mille Bornes is played with a special deck of cards. There are hazard, remedy, safety, and distance cards. Each hazard is corrected by a corresponding remedy, and is actually prevented from happening in the first place by a corresponding safety. The target distance is reached by playing distance cards.
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