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?
Empire Builder (board game) Empire Builder (board game) Empire Builder is a railroad board game centered on the construction of railroad track and delivery of goods. It was designed by Bill Fawcett and Darwin Bromley and released in 1982 by Mayfair Games. The original game was set in the United States and Canada. This was replaced with a new version encompassing all of North America, including Mexico. A number of spin off games have been released since, expanding the game's geography to other countries ("British Rails", "Australian Rails", "Russian Rails," etc.) and fantastic landscapes ("Iron Dragon, Lunar Rails, Martian Rails"). These games are collectively