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RUMMIKUB Board Game Brings People Together Original Tile Family Game - $35 (North side)
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RUMMIKUB Board Game Brings People Together Original Tile Family Game Pressman 1997 NEW.
Ages 8+. For 2-4 players. The RUMMIKUB game just celebrated its 70th year anniversary in 2020. It has all the elements of making it the greatest game. It’s easy to learn and fast-moving. The “board” changes all the time as players adjust the tiles on the table. It combines luck and strategy and it quickly changes so every player has a chance to win until the very end. Rummikub is a worldwide known brand played by millions of players, young and old, sold in more than 50 countries and translated into 26 languages. No barriers of language can overcome the joy and interest the game creates. The story of Rummikub it is about great vision, willpower and lot of optimism while representing the joy in life. This 1997, Pressman edition game was a gift so shrink wrap is off the exterior of box. However, the tiles are still sealed in original plastic, game is new, never played. Perfect for gift-giving. Stored in a cool dry place. Comes from a smoke-free/pet-free home.
Description:
The game is based on the traditional middle-eastern game of Okey. First created in the 1930s and sold in hand-produced versions until the late 1970s. Similar to the Rummy that you play with cards - you try to get rid of all your tiles by forming numbers into runs of 3 tiles or more, or 3 to 4 of a kind. The colors of the numbers on the tiles are like card suits. This game may start rather uneventfully, but when the players start putting more and more tiles in play, the options for your upcoming turns can become more complex, challenging, and exciting.
Awards & Honors:
1980 Spiel des Jahres Winner
History:
This is the fascinating story of the Rummikub game, whose conception is obscured in the past, over 70 years ago. Mr. Ephraim Hertzano originally made his living selling toothbrushes and other plastic accessories as well as cosmetics. The game started as a brilliant idea that had occurred to Mr. Hertzano, living in Romania, when card-playing was outlawed under the Communist regime. Mr. Hertzano envisioned playing a game that would use small tiles instead of cards to play, a game that could be played by young and old alike, and that had no ties to any language or religion. He wanted to create a game that would bring people together and one day change the world’s leisure time. He called it Rummikub. Accompanied with a vision just as bright and as grand as the initial idea, it became an overnight hit. The Hertzano family moved to Israel in the 1940’s after World War II, continuing the development on Rummikub in the backyard of his house in Bat Yam, and eventually became a professional game developer after publishing it to the market.