''The Game'' is a
dice
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game designed by
Reinhold Wittig. It was first published in
Germany
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in 1979, without rules and under the
German
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name ''Das Spiel''.
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It contains a triangular base plate and 281 dice of four different colours, and a rule book that gives rules for some 50+ games. Most of the games are centered on building or demolishing pyramids of dice, but there are also racing games and games of skill. The game has been originally published by Diego Rodriguez (Reinhold Wittig), Göttingen, in 1979.
''The Game'' won the 1980
Spiel des Jahres
The Spiel des Jahres (, ''Game of the Year'') is an award for board and card games, created in 1978 with the purpose of rewarding family-friendly game design, and promoting excellent games in the German market. It is thought that the existence ...
special award for "most beautiful game".
In his preface Wittig writes:
I've often been asked how you go about it to invent a game. I want to add one answer now. Is perhaps the best answer possible to show the many different ways of designing a game. The answer is also a challenge: Invent rules of your own to my dice pyramid.
The first edition of the game was a small version of the dice pyramid, without any rules. Over time, players contributed their own rules to a collection.
Reviews
*''
Jeux & Stratégie'' #47 (as "Le Jeu")
[https://archive.org/details/jeux-et-strategie-47/page/16/mode/2up]
See also
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Game design
Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in ...
References
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Dice games