Tabletop games
Napoleon
The Avalon Hill Game Co, 1974
Napoleon is a tabletop game published by The Avalon Hill Game Co in 1974. It is played with 2 to 3 players, from age 12 and in about 120 minutes.
- players
- 2–3
- minutes
- 120
- years
- 12+
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The box
- Publishers
- The Avalon Hill Game Co, Columbia Games, Gamma Two Games, Papo
- Designers
- Tom Dalgliesh, Ron Gibson, Lance Gutteridge
- Artwork
- Jacques-Louis David, Eric Hotz, Howard David Johnson, Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler
- Year of release
- 1974
- Also known as
- Nap · Napoléon: The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 · Napoléon: The Waterloo Campaign Game
About the game
Napoleon or Nap is a straightforward trick-taking game in which players receive five cards each and whoever bids the highest number of tricks chooses trumps and tries to win at least that number of tricks. It is often described as a simplified version of Euchre, although David Parlett believes it is more like "an elaboration of Rams". It has many variations throughout Northern Europe, such as Fipsen. The game has been popular in England for many years, and has given the language a slang expression, "to go nap", meaning to take five of anything. It may be less popular now than it was, but it is still played in some parts of southern England and in Strathclyde. Despite its title and allusions, it is not recorded before the last third of the nineteenth century, and may have been first named after Napoleon III.Known barcodes
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- 3465000397258Napoléon
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