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Bookchase

Art Meets Matter Ltd, 2007

Bookchase is a party game published by Art Meets Matter Ltd in 2007. It is played with 2 to 6 players and in about 45 minutes.

players
2–6
minutes
45

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Publisher
Art Meets Matter Ltd
Designer
Tony Davis
Year of release
2007
Also known as
The Great Penguin Bookchase

About the game

Bookchase is a 2007 board game published by Art Meets Matter. Players compete to acquire six small books for their bookshelf. They do this by partly by answering multiple-choice questions, partly by visiting special spaces on the board: The Bookshop, The Book Corner, The Library and also by chance events triggered by the turn of an Award or Sentence card. Each player takes turns moving round the board until one player has acquired six books: one of each of six categories. Once the player has a book shelf with six books they head for the centre space and if they arrive with book shelf intact they win. The game's designer Tony Davis describes the game as having "elements of Trivial Pursuit and Monopoly". The board game was first launched and played at The Hay Festival of Literature in 2007. It was later republished as The Great Penguin Bookchase.
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