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From a country where board games featuring Nazi symbology have been barred from entering comes the card game Das Fuehrer Quartett, a simple child’s game based on Go Fish.
In this game, you collect dictators, with fun facts about them printed on the cards:
For example, the card featuring Stalin explains that while in school he was repeatedly caught reading material that had been banned. The card on Romania’s Nicolae Ceausescu reveals that he had a soft spot for Vlad the Impaler, said to have been the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.”
Needless to say, there have been some raised eyebrows in Germany. The developers’ response is that, unlike the traditional game, in Quartett you have to rid yourself of the dictators as quickly as possible.
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Hello, a similar but more serious political card game is the notorious “Tyrannen-Quartett”, also with Facts about Stalin, Pol Pot, Khomeini and “Blitztrompf” Hitler. They even made a 2nd Edition with Gaddhafi on the Cover and some other interesting Games, for example “Plagues” or “Drugs”. Read more about it in my Blog Quartettblog, http://quartettblog.wordpress.com/
yes, its in German…
Bye Chris