About Time (board game) answers that are closest to the correct year on the question cards. The question cards all feature six events and a year in which the events took place. Chips are used as rewards and can be won or lost during high-stakes board play. Each card contains questions in six subject categories including arts, politics, everyday life and innovation. Player pieces are iconic historical figures including Napoleon, Queen Elizabeth I, Genghis Khan and William Shakespeare. In 2008, in a promotional tie-in with "The Guardian" newspaper, About Time used the newspaper’s archive to add content to the game. In Germany, a German
The Magic Labyrinth (board game) board, connected to the wizard piece by a magnet. The pieces start out from the four corners of the board. At the start of the game, a treasure is randomly selected, and the players have to get to the square representing the treasure. On his/her turn, a player throws a die deciding how many spaces his/her piece can move. If the player's piece hits a wall, the metal sphere underneath the board falls off, audible to the player. When this happens, the player forfeits his/her turn, having to move his/her piece back to the starting corner. The idea of the