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?
Tales of the Arabian Nights (board game) Tales of the Arabian Nights (board game) Tales of the Arabian Nights is a board game first published by West End Games in 1985. "Tales of the Arabian Nights" is a paragraph-based storytelling board game. "Tales of the Arabian Nights" was first published by West End Games in 1985, and was designed by Eric Goldberg. It was re-issued in 2009 by Z-Man Games in a revised, corrected, and much expanded form. Jeff Grubb comments: ""Tales of the Arabian Nights" succeeds because its rules match its subject matter so well. The paragraph system within the "Book of Tales" nicely mirrors the