How Many Miles to Babylon? In the 1824 edition of "The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia" there's a description of the rhyme and the game, giving the distance as "six, seven or a lang eight". The rhyme was originally accompanied by a singing game in which two lines face each other, with one player in the middle. At the end of the rhyme the players have to cross the space and any caught help the original player in the middle catch the others. The game seems to have fallen out of use in the twentieth century. In literature In film In music How Many Miles to Babylon?
1829 (board game) luck involved is in determining the initial play order. A second version of the game known as "1829 (North)" was published by Francis Tresham in 1981 and covers railroading in Northern England and Southern Scotland. 1829 (board game) 1829 (South) is a railroad operations and share-trading board game in the "18xx" series, first published by Hartland Trefoil Ltd (UK) in 1974 from an original design by Francis Tresham, but is now out of print. "1829 (South)" is based on railroading in southern England and Wales and became the first game in the "18xx" series, with the basic game design now