Escape from Colditz
(1973)
Who is this game suitable for?
Suitable for ages 12 and up. You can play with 2 to 6 players.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Elapsed Real Time Ending, Grid Movement, Hexagon Grid, Open Drafting, Roll / Spin and Move, Set Collection und Simulation...
Game Data
| Average time to play: | 180 |
| Minimum age: | 12 |
| Number of players: | 2 - 6 |
| Publisher: | Clipper, Devir, Factor Games, Gibsons, Nike and Cooper Española, S.A., Osprey Games, Parker Brothers, Smeets & Schippers |
| Designers: | Bob Brechin, Brian Degas, Major P.R. Reid M.B.E., M.C. |
| Artists: | Antonio Catalán, Peter Dennis |
| Mechanics: | Elapsed Real Time Ending, Grid Movement, Hexagon Grid, Open Drafting, Roll / Spin and Move, Set Collection, Simulation |
Escape From Colditz is a 1-vs-many semi-cooperative game where one player is the Security Officer of the German forces, and the others are Escape Officers for various nationalities or prisoners of war (POWs). Escape Officers try to acquire the equipment they need for a successful escape (rope, wire cutters, etc.), while the Security Officer tries to hinder them by putting them in solitary confinement and consficating their equipment.
Play lasts for a pre-determined length of time or number of rounds. If an Escape Officer can free a pre-determined number of POWs (usually 2) before then, they win. Otherwise the Security Officer wins.
The game was co-designed by Major PR Reid, a British soldier who was one of the few to actually successfully escape from Colditz during the Second World War.
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