Board games
Blue & Gray
Dover Publications, 1903
Blue & Gray is a board game published by Dover Publications in 1903. It is played with 2 players, from age 8 and in about 20 minutes.
- players
- 2
- minutes
- 20
- years
- 8+
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The box
- Publishers
- Dover Publications, dtv (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag), House of Marbles, Hugendubel Verlag, Hutchinson, NewVenture Games
- Designers
- Henry Busch, Arthur Jaeger
- Artwork
- David McCord
- Year of release
- 1903
- Also known as
- Blue and Gray · Azul y Gris · Blau und Grau · Die Blauen und die Grauen
About the game
Blue and Gray is a strategy board game for two players invented by Henry Busch and Arthur Jaeger in 1903. They obtained a patent for the game, but may never have published it. The name Blue and Gray "refers to the uniforms of the South and the North in the Civil War and in the original game the playing pieces of the contestants were of those colors." Blue and Gray is a variant of checkers.
Blue and Gray was featured in the book A Gamut of Games (1969) by Sid Sackson. It was also featured in The Book of Classic Board Games (1991) by Klutz Press under the name Cats and Dogs. In this book, the game was ranked among the top 15 board games of all time, including checkers, backgammon, Go, and mancala. The game is also known as Wild West, Thumps Game, and Captain and Soldiers.More from Dover Publications
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