Hendrik van Loon first authored the book titled The Story of Mankind in the s. He also wrote a number of other books and articles based upon his travels. Although van Loon died in the s, his son continued to update The Story of Mankind into the s. There are many editions available. Ostensibly because of the popularity of the book, in the s Parker Brothers concluded an agreement with van Loon and used van Loon's name for advertising purposes for the later editions of their Wide World Game.
It has been assumed that van Loon had little to do with the game as such, and the game is purely an updated design and implementation of Parker Brothers based upon their earlier game. The version in the collection in the photograph above has a feature which was not part of earlier versions of the game - metal game pieces in the shape of jet airplanes - used by the players in the game to mark their progress on the board.
These game pieces can be seen placed as a group on the bottom center of the board. The game board, folds in half, and when open is It is backed by a blue textured paper which includes the game logo which can be seen on the front of the board in the photograph. The playing surface of the opened board is a stylized map of the world divided into squares.
The intent of each player is to travel around the world going to various destinations collecting various products. The game is for 2 to 6 players, and each player uses an ivory colored die with black dots 1. When "landing" on a square with a "red circle" a player picks a "Travel Agent Card" from the pile and follows the instructions on the card.
These cards "send" players to various destinations on the game board. At destinations, players can accumulate points toward winning the games. The game includes three types of cards for this purpose:. Travel Agent Cards 8. Destination Cards 8. These destination correspond to the blue circles on the game board.
Product Cards 4. Contain profanity 3. Are full of p0rn 4. Advertise or contain links to retail websites 5. Are abusive or potentially libelous. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address:. Sign me up! Ever scoured the Internet looking for what exactly you were missing from the old board game you pulled from your closet, only to find no succor in your time of need? The game board featuring a 2-dimensional representation of the world overlaid with a grid pattern.
A deck of 56 Product Cards consisting of two decks: one with 28 cards worth 1 point, the other with 28 cards worth 2 points , which are:. The Game Rules.
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You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. The players a dealt a number of Destination cards. When a destination is visited then the player takes two Product cards, which are either worth 1 or 2 points.
The player who visits all his destinations first then returns home is awarded an extra 5 points then the player with the most points wins. To get to their destinations, the players roll a die then move the number of squares shown.
The players are not required to land on their destinations exactly if they are 3 squares away then they can land on their destination if they roll a 5 for example. If a player lands on a red spot on the board, they must take a Travel Agent card.
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