History of the World (board game) the number of armies it gets, its capital or starting location in parentheses, and the seas it can navigate in parentheses. Each epoch there is a minor empire and a kingdom that can be played as event cards, and these are listed at the bottom of the epoch. History of the World (board game) History of the World (often abbreviated HotW) is a board game designed by Ragnar Brothers and originally published in 1991. It is played by up to six different players in seven different epochs; each player playing a different empire in each epoch. The first edition of
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