http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Cycling board game: flamme rouge en Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:03:06 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-270876 Thu, 28 Dec 2017 18:45:28 +0000 robyvecchio 270876@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm always up for games :) here is my collection. <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/Robyvecchio">collection</a></p> <p>feel free to PM me too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-270848 Thu, 28 Dec 2017 12:34:45 +0000 jdanielp 270848@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Anybody else want to join us sometime in the new year? I'm keen to try Snow Tails. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-270808 Wed, 27 Dec 2017 20:28:57 +0000 Roibeard 270808@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm usually up for gaming...</p> <p>Feel free to PM me a suggested time - I'm on leave and in Edinburgh until the weekend.</p> <p>Feel free to suggest something from my <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/Roibeard?gallery=large&amp;rankobjecttype=subtype&amp;rankobjectid=1&amp;columns=title%7Cstatus%7Cversion%7Crating%7Cbggrating%7Cplays%7Ccomment%7Ccommands&amp;geekranks=Board+Game+Rank&amp;excludesubtype=boardgameexpansion&amp;own=1&amp;objecttype=thing&amp;ff=1&amp;subtype=boardgame">collection</a> too.</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-270796 Wed, 27 Dec 2017 18:45:02 +0000 jdanielp 270796@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is anyone still interested in a board game meet up and does anyone have Flamme Rouge?</p> <p>This is my collection: <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/jdanielp" rel="nofollow">https://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/jdanielp</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-270790 Wed, 27 Dec 2017 16:36:23 +0000 robyvecchio 270790@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Boardgame/cycling rant.<br /> I was playing a game over Christmas called The Chameleon.</p> <p>Long story short the main component are cards with a topic and a grid of 16 words associated with it.</p> <p>On topic "Transport" beside the usual suspects "Car", "Train", "Airplane", there were "Spaceship", "Broomstick", "Magic Carpet".</p> <p>Cycling did not make the cut for the designer apparently. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-239562 Wed, 21 Dec 2016 15:37:11 +0000 jdanielp 239562@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Flamme Rouge looks fun despite The Guardian's criticisms.</p> <p>@Roibeard nice to find someone else who owns Robo Rally! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-239550 Wed, 21 Dec 2016 13:05:05 +0000 SRD 239550@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/21/best-new-board-games-star-wars-destiny-pandemic-iberia-schotten-totten" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/21/best-new-board-games-star-wars-destiny-pandemic-iberia-schotten-totten</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-238549 Thu, 08 Dec 2016 14:27:17 +0000 shuggiet 238549@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's arrived. Love the artwork! Shame can't open it .. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-238227 Mon, 05 Dec 2016 17:20:41 +0000 shuggiet 238227@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>When I wrench it away from the giftee, then a CCE playing frenzy is a definite possibility.. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-238194 Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:36:33 +0000 gembo 238194@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>this thread has taken on a revealing side to the forum, just before Xmas.</p> <p>When I was age to play board games (only joking it says 9-89 on the box) my parents bought me one called Spy Ring, we could never work out the rules and it was shite. You had to put a wee metal stick in the hat of the spy (the spy was a small plastic bust modelled on Erik Honneker), red, green, yellow and blue spies. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-238193 Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:20:53 +0000 SRD 238193@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>i want to play wingpig's version! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-238188 Mon, 05 Dec 2016 12:52:15 +0000 Cyclingmollie 238188@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The first half of the game is played out on the roads; the second half in a court-room. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-238177 Mon, 05 Dec 2016 11:53:18 +0000 I were right about that saddle 238177@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>'Your fridge full of exotic asthma medicine and frozen human blood turns out to be for your dog, not you. Your psychopathic bullying of everyone within sight goes unnoticed for several years. Miss no turns and collect €6,000,000.' </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-238175 Mon, 05 Dec 2016 11:47:03 +0000 wingpig 238175@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is it about bicycle-racing, or the general use of bicycles?</p> <p>"You buy slightly too much on the way home. Lose ten minutes whilst you fiddle about with bungee cords and juice cartons or cereal boxes in a way which will get them home intact but not too tightly-squeezed."</p> <p>"Your segregated cycleway proposal incurs the wrath of a concerned local citizen. Miss a turn." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-238170 Mon, 05 Dec 2016 11:31:07 +0000 Cyclingmollie 238170@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I remember Totopoly. I think the board was double-sided; training on one side and the racecourse on the other. Perhaps the game could be like Railroader but instead of laying track through a mythical American landscape for trains to follow it could have hapless local authorities trying to repair French rural roads ahead of the peloton. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-238166 Mon, 05 Dec 2016 11:24:06 +0000 sallyhinch 238166@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That sounds a bit like Totopoly where you spend the first half of the game training your horses &amp; the second half racing them. Can't remember the details exactly but a friend's family had it when I was a child </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-238159 Mon, 05 Dec 2016 11:20:22 +0000 SRD 238159@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I notice that shuggiet hasn't replied ;) but you know, Akva has board games. I'm sure they wouldn't mind if we brought our own and had a play some afternoon in the new year. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-238154 Mon, 05 Dec 2016 10:45:14 +0000 Roibeard 238154@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I can't speak for Flamme Rouge, however Um Reifenbreite is a racing game whereby you try and manage your team to victory, Tour style (including the possibility of cheating in the Pro rules!). Drafting, breakaways and road conditions are included.</p> <p>It does have Chance cards, with text similar to:</p> <p>"A witness maintains that you have had an assist from an accompanying vehicle. All protests are in vain."</p> <p>"You legs feel as soft as pudding today. You move slower and slower."</p> <p>"You have gathered your strength in the slipstream - now you take off!"</p> <p>The only decent racing game I have at the moment is a (locally designed) dog sled race <a href="https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38054/snow-tails">Snow Tails</a>, however this has proved a bit ponderous as folk struggle to add two numbers and take away a third (all in the range 1-5)!</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-238146 Mon, 05 Dec 2016 10:13:09 +0000 I were right about that saddle 238146@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm intrigued as to what a cycling board game could be. I can imagine a version of monopoly with Chance cards like 'You decide to service your hubs before a club ride but one ball bearing falls out and bounces onto the lawn. Spend an hour looking for it with a magnet on a string. Do not go cycling. Order a tub of 500 ball bearings on-line, 491 of which will be thrown out when your shed is cleared after your demise fifty years from now.' </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-238145 Mon, 05 Dec 2016 09:53:18 +0000 Roibeard 238145@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You could also try <a href="https://snydepels.dk/products/flamme-rouge">Snydepels</a>, as long as you can cope with a Nordic version.</p> <p>(Courtesy of <a href="https://boardgameprices.co.uk/item/show/19253/flamme-rouge?search=flamme+rouge">BoardGamePrices</a>)</p> <p>I think the English version may be harder to come by beyond Suggiet's link...</p> <p>I'm holding out for <a href="https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/442/um-reifenbreite">Um Reifenbreite</a> which has never had an English printing, but is common in Germany - one of these days I'll pick it up from ebay.de!</p> <p>There are <a href="https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/5663/sports-bicycle-cycling">quite a few cycling games</a>, but these are some of the best (set the Sort to Rank to reveal the most regarded).</p> <p>I confess to enjoying boardgames, and <a href="https://goo.gl/QXFqfi">have a few good ones</a> (in amongst the dross!) - if anyone fancies a game drop me a PM!</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-238142 Mon, 05 Dec 2016 08:14:26 +0000 gembo 238142@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@shuggiet if it arrives are we all coming round to yours for a game? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-238139 Sun, 04 Dec 2016 23:38:10 +0000 SRD 238139@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice one shuggiet! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-238138 Sun, 04 Dec 2016 23:26:19 +0000 shuggiet 238138@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Seems to be orderable from:</p> <p><a href="https://www.boardgamer.eu/produkt/flamme-rouge-engelsk" rel="nofollow">https://www.boardgamer.eu/produkt/flamme-rouge-engelsk</a></p> <p>Will let you know if it arrives! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-238135 Sun, 04 Dec 2016 22:43:18 +0000 SRD 238135@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Odd. I can see a 'buy now' button when I search for it, but when I click it, it takes me to the main page, without a 'buy' button. </p> <p>Thanks for trying for me! I've mailed the company. My friend did say she got the last copy in the shop (in Copenhagen), so maybe it is sold out online as well. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-238134 Sun, 04 Dec 2016 22:28:42 +0000 Frenchy 238134@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Can anyone else get it to work? (wondering if it is a Mac/Flash sort of problem?) </em><br /> Nope. Choosing the English language version, the "Buy Now" button is missing, although it's there on the Nordic version, so I think it's a problem with the page (or it's sold out/not available yet etc.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17230#post-238133 Sun, 04 Dec 2016 22:12:12 +0000 SRD 238133@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was sure we had a thread - or at least a discussion - of board games, but can't find one. </p> <p>An American-Italian family who live in Denmark, flagged this on FB today, as they know the designer (and at least one of them is a cycling nut). </p> <p><a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/199478/flamme-rouge" rel="nofollow">https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/199478/flamme-rouge</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.lautapelit.fi/tuotehaku.asp?sua=1&amp;lang=3&amp;reid=1&amp;tn=flamme+rouge" rel="nofollow">http://www.lautapelit.fi/tuotehaku.asp?sua=1&amp;lang=3&amp;reid=1&amp;tn=flamme+rouge</a></p> <p>Annoying, I cannot get the Finnish website to let me buy it. Can anyone else get it to work? (wondering if it is a Mac/Flash sort of problem?) </p>