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?
Ingenious (board game) the coloured symbols. "Einfach Genial Junior" is a simpler version of the game. It uses similar techniques of matching coloured symbols but utilises a square board instead of hexagons. "Einfach Genial: Das Kartenspiel" is a card game based on the original Einfach Genial. "Einfach Genial: Wer zu viel riskiert, verliert!" ("Simply ingenious - who risks too much, loses!") uses the same coloured symbols, but each hexagonal playing tile only has one symbol. Ingenious (board game) Ingenious is the English name for Einfach Genial (Simply Ingenious), a German abstract strategy board game designed by Reiner Knizia under commission from Sophisticated Games