Help. Vague memory of a boardgame.

[Avahi1057]

I'm trying to remember a board game from the early 1990s that **I think** had some sort of "travelling around a city" aspect to it. The game might have been set in London (but I wouldn't swear to it) and no this game wasn't monopoly.

The game came with hundreds of little "tiles". I've no idea what purpose they played in the game but there was so many of them I guess they were probably for covering areas of the board? The tiles were rectangular shaped and made of cardboard/cork with a sort of glossy piece glued on top - imagine the feel of a jigsaw piece, but not the shape!. Anyway, the point is they were not plastic pieces.

Size-wise I'd say these tiles were approximately the size of a Lego 2x4 piece ( http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2377/...887d079175.jpg )

Colour-wise I think these pieces came in three colours (green red yellow) and for some reason I recall the green tiles had the word "Taxi" on them and a logo kinda similar to the London Underground logo ( http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geoff.h...D%20PMS485.jpg )

The reason I remember these tiles better than the game is we actually never played the game itself. Instead we used to take all the tiles to use as poker chips. Therefore I can't really remember too much about this game now but maybe there's enough there for you to twig what it was. Thanks.

[Roz]

Re: Help. Vague memory of a boardgame.

I'm trying to remember a board game from the early 1990s that **I think** had some sort of "travelling around a city" aspect to it. The game might have been set in London (but I wouldn't swear to it) and no this game wasn't monopoly.

The game came with hundreds of little "tiles". I've no idea what purpose they played in the game but there was so many of them I guess they were probably for covering areas of the board? The tiles were rectangular shaped and made of cardboard/cork with a sort of glossy piece glued on top - imagine the feel of a jigsaw piece, but not the shape!. Anyway, the point is they were not plastic pieces.

Size-wise I'd say these tiles were approximately the size of a Lego 2x4 piece ( http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2377/...887d079175.jpg )

Colour-wise I think these pieces came in three colours (green red yellow) and for some reason I recall the green tiles had the word "Taxi" on them and a logo kinda similar to the London Underground logo ( http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geoff.h...D%20PMS485.jpg )

The reason I remember these tiles better than the game is we actually never played the game itself. Instead we used to take all the tiles to use as poker chips. Therefore I can't really remember too much about this game now but maybe there's enough there for you to twig what it was. Thanks.

Hi there,

I think the game was called 'Scotland Yard' - I was actually going to post about it myself as it was my favourite board game as a child!

The board was a map of London and one player was on the run with the other players playing detectives trying to catch them. Each player was given bus, tube, or taxi tokens and the player on the run was also given a blue board to mark where they were in the city. Every so often they had to reveal their whereabouts to the other players. I remember you got quite a few bus and tube tokens but not many taxi ones, you'd try to save them up as you could obviously travel further with them.

It has its own Wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_Yard_(board_game)

I'd urge anyone who likes board games to buy this, it is an overlooked gem. It also gave me a huge insight into where everything was in London.

P.S the mods may want to move this to the 'Board Games' section?

[Avahi1057]

Re: Help. Vague memory of a boardgame.

That's it! Amazing answer. I know I posted it anyway but I honestly didn't expect anyone to get it based on what little info I supplied. Thanks!

[Roz]

Re: Help. Vague memory of a boardgame.

That's it! Amazing answer. I know I posted it anyway but I honestly didn't expect anyone to get it based on what little info I supplied. Thanks!

You're very welcome

Was nice to know someone else knew it too!