Touring (card game)

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Touring
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1926 "Improved Edition"
by Parker Brothers Co.
Manufacturers Parker Brothers
Designers Wallie Dorr Co
PublishersWinning Moves
Parker Brothers
Publication1906
Years active1906–1976
GenresTake That
LanguagesEnglish
Players2, 3, 4 and 6
SkillsMedium
Media typeCards

Touring is a specialty card game originally designed by William Janson Roche [1] and patented by the Wallie Dorr Company and produced in 1906. It was acquired by Parker Brothers in 1925. [1] [2] It is widely believed the popular French card game Mille Bornes was derived from Touring. After several revisions, Touring was discontinued shortly after Parker Brothers picked up the American license of Mille Bornes. [1] [2] However, the game of Touring was reissued by Winning Moves in 2014.

Contents

Updates to editions

The original Wallie Dorr edition was a small red box with 100 cards. They updated the game to a side-by-side wider box which Parker Bros used for their first edition of the game after they purchased it.

Periodically the Parker Bros. Co. adjusted the card art and subsequently, the images became more modern, and increased the mileage cards. Until the final edition, game play remained unchanged, just the denominations of miles increased as the trip length and comfort of automobile travel increased. The final edition reversed the trend, using artwork closer to the original Model-T-era cars and adjusting the card totals with an addition of two new delays.

Original rules

Two cards from the 1926 edition Touring game cards 02 1926.jpg
Two cards from the 1926 edition

The players run a race of 50 or 100 miles, as agreed before the game starts. A player cannot play the mileage cards (1, 3, 5, 10 Miles) unless they have a Go card in front of them. If both players are in City Limits (played by either), they can't play the 10 Mile card ("Speed Limit 5 Miles per Hour"); they can remove this card's effect by playing the Country! card (which affects both players). They lose 1 or 2 hours if an opponent plays a Collision ("Delay! 1 Hour"), Out of Gasoline ("Delay! 1 Hour"), or Puncture ("Delay! 2 Hours") card and must discard an "hour's" worth of cards for each hour (5 miles in the city, 10 miles in the country). To resume driving, they must also play a "Remedy" card (Hauled In for a collision and Gasoline for Out of Gasoline, nothing for Puncture) and a Go card. To win, the player must exactly match the total mileage (50 or 100 miles, as agreed). [3]

Play variant

In each copy of the directions were an option to play progressive touring, in which multiple tables of 4 would play simultaneously.

Cards of select editions

Winning tableau for card game "Touring", as well as its other cards and the box it came in. 1947-1957 edition Touring (1947 & 1958 edition).jpg
Winning tableau for card game "Touring", as well as its other cards and the box it came in. 1947–1957 edition
Edition
(Card count)
Mileage DelayRemedyMovement
QtyTypeQtyTypeQtyTypeQtyType
1906
(100)
201 Mile3Collision8Hauled in15Go
103 Miles2Puncture
105 Miles3Out of gasoline8Gasoline
1210 Miles4City limits [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 2] 5Country [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 3]
1937
(99)
19 [lower-alpha 4] 1 Mile3Collision8Hauled in15Go
103 Miles2Puncture
1015 Miles [lower-alpha 5] 3Out of gasoline8Gasoline
1230 Miles [lower-alpha 6] 4City limits5Country
1957
(99)
195 Miles [lower-alpha 7] 3Collision8Hauled in15Go
1015 Miles [lower-alpha 8] 2Puncture
1025 Miles [lower-alpha 5] 3Out of gasoline8Gasoline
1245 Miles [lower-alpha 9] 4City limits5Country
1965
(99)
1925 Miles [lower-alpha 6] 3Missed the Curve [lower-alpha 10] 7 [lower-alpha 4] Wrecker [lower-alpha 10] 13 [lower-alpha 11] Go
1035 Miles [lower-alpha 6] 2Broken Spring [lower-alpha 10]
1050 Miles [lower-alpha 12] 2Brake Adjustment [lower-alpha 13]
1275 Miles [lower-alpha 14] 2Burning oil [lower-alpha 13]
 3Stop to Refuel [lower-alpha 10] 7 [lower-alpha 4] Gasoline
3 [lower-alpha 4] Populated Area [lower-alpha 10] 6 [lower-alpha 15] Freeway [lower-alpha 10]
Notes
  1. 1 2 Also counted as a movement card.
  2. Restricts playable mileage cards to the lower two denominations.
  3. Lifts restriction on playable mileage cards.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Count reduced by 1 card compared to prior version
  5. 1 2 Distance increased by 10 miles compared to prior version
  6. 1 2 3 Distance increased by 20 miles compared to prior version
  7. Distance increased by 4 miles compared to prior version
  8. Distance increased by 12 miles compared to prior version
  9. Distance increased by 15 miles compared to prior version
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Several cards were retitled (Old → New):
    • Collision → Missed the Curve
    • Out of Gas → Stopped to Refuel
    • Puncture → Broken Spring
    • Hauled In → Wrecker
    • City Limits → Populated Area
    • Country → Freeway
  11. Count reduced by 2 cards compared to prior version
  12. Distance increased by 25 miles compared to prior version
  13. 1 2 New delay
  14. Distance increased by 30 miles compared to prior version
  15. Count increased by 1 card compared to prior version

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