Trouble (board game)
A board game using a Pop-O-Matic die container to move pieces.
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Trouble is a board game where players race four pegs around a track and into a finish line, using a Pop-O-Matic die roller.[1] The first player to move all four pegs once around the board and into their finish wins.[1] The British game Ludo, which is a simplified version of the Indian game Pachisi, served as the basis for Trouble's design and rules.[2][3]
Making and release
Trouble was originally invented and developed by the Kohner Brothers.[4] Four years after launch, in 1969, Milton Bradley Co. took over the game.[4] The classic version is now marketed by Winning Moves Games USA.[2] A similar Milton Bradley game called Headache has conical pawns instead of cylindrical ones and a different track layout.[5]
Irwin Toy Ltd. handled the initial production of the game, with manufacturing later shifting to the Milton Bradley Company, which is currently a division of Hasbro.[2] Milton Bradley first issued a Double Trouble variant in 1987.[5]
What the cited sources add
The official rules state that each player selects four pegs of one color and places them in the matching color home.[1] A Prezi presentation notes that a good strategy is to get one pawn a quarter of the way around the board before releasing another from home.[4] The Cyningstan account of Ludo explains that Ludo is a simplification of Pachisi invented in the late nineteenth century, where luck dominates and up to four players race four pieces around a cross-shaped board.[3] The direction of travel for pieces on the board is clockwise.[6][3]
Once a piece reaches the last four spaces before the finish, it cannot be sent back by an opponent.[6] In contrast to Parcheesi, players cannot use their pieces to create a blockade that stops opponents from passing.[6]
References
- "How to play Trouble | Official Rules | UltraBoardGames", ultraboardgames.com. facts only, no text reused. ultraboardgames.com
- Wikipedia, "Trouble (board game)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Trouble Board Game", prezi.com; "Winning Moves Games: Trouble® Classic Edition", winning-moves.com; "Ludo | Cyningstan", cyningstan.com (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- "Ludo | Cyningstan", cyningstan.com. facts only, no text reused. cyningstan.com
- "Trouble Board Game", prezi.com. facts only, no text reused. prezi.com
- Wikipedia, "Trouble (board game)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Headache", BoardGameGeek (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Trouble (board game)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "How to play Trouble | Official Rules | UltraBoardGames", ultraboardgames.com (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
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- Wikipedia: Trouble (board game) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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