🃏1000 bornes card game

This past campout Sean introduced me to an old card game 1000 Bornes. This game has existed since 1954 and goes by many names, and there is even a Cars Lightning McQueen edition.

The object of Mille Bornes is that the players are in a road race. I know, we went kayaking to Travestine Island to getaway from the city. And now Sean wants me to play a game about cars racing to a mythical finish line. Never the less, the game is fun and it is easy to see why people are still playing it after its orginal published date.

Mille Bornes is played with a special deck of cards. After dealing out six cards we took turns playing distant cards. Granted there are also hazard, remedy, and safety cards. Each hazard is corrected by a corresponding remedy, and is actually prevented from happening in the first place by a corresponding safety. Occasionally, Sean slowed my progress by giving me a flat tire. I then would set up a speed limit against him. I ran out of gas, and he had an accident. There is a bit of strategy

Each race—or hand—is usually 700 miles (or kilometers) long, but the first player to complete that distance exactly has the option to declare an extension in which case the race becomes 1,000 miles. Other times the game is played up to 1000 miles first, and then the first player to complete that distance has the option to declare an “extension” for 1,200 miles.