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Gear: This Grand Prix Board Game Lets You Race Your Friends In Style

This Grand Prix Board Game Lets You Race Your Friends In Style

By Michael Banovsky
February 8, 2016
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Great news: it’s time to retire that cheesy Monopoly race car for good. Chances are you’re not alone in wishing there was a more engaging way to integrate cars into a board game beyond superficially-shaped pieces. Designer Mark Haskins has been working on this challenge for years as a passion project, and the result is Lacorsa—“the race” in Italian.

It’s a game designed around overtaking, works with between 2–6 players (and teams!), and the winner is crowned World Champion. Each deal is a race, with the cards played by “drivers” through the hand. Great, right? After seven hands, a winner gets to gloat.

Besides an interesting style of gameplay, Lacorsa looks beautiful, with shapely game pieces and crisp card design. Even the rules are called, appropriately, “Sporting Regulations”. They’re online if you’d like to get a jump on your competition.

While I haven’t had a chance to play it yet, we’ve invited Haskins to demo it at the office—defeating  coworkers in a game of skill is worth a bit of lost productivity, surely…

To stay on top of the game’s progress, visit the Lacorsa website and mark March 8 in your calendar as the start of Lacorsa’s crowdfunding campaign.

Tags Board Game/ Grand Prix/ Lacorsa
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parkercrooks
parkercrooks
1 month ago

it’s a fun game. I created an artificial racecourse in Minecraft APK using cubes and organized a small race with my friends

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Holt Robyn
6 months ago

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8 months ago

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Torvi Jonson
Torvi Jonson
9 months ago

Everyone’s a winner in this board game, where you get to race your pals with a sleek racing car. The goal is to be the first player to cross the finish line, and you can do it up in style with a personalized sign that says “Best Player Wins.”This game starts off slow, but once you hit “go” on the track, it builds into an adrenaline-pumping race for glory. It’s easy to play, too. Just place the four discs on the track and watch as they zigzag their way around. It’s an easy way to play board games with friends and family. Well, visiting the seedroyaltysurvey.com website is also a fascinating the experience of mine because I played wonderful games in a top Canadian secure online casino and earned money through it.

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JaidenWoodcock
1 year ago

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1 year ago

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Denial Smith
Denial Smith
2 years ago

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amandatrincher
amandatrincher
2 years ago

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teecee
teecee
6 years ago

Needs a circular track not a straight piece of wood…seems more like leapfrog and that kills it for me.. I like the cool cars though.

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Maxime Veilleux
Maxime Veilleux
6 years ago

That would be a nice addition to my local board games bar.

Probably gonna give a few bucks to this project.

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pope400
pope400
6 years ago
Reply to  Maxime Veilleux

Where would one find this board games bar?

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ozi458
ozi458
6 years ago

I want to buy…where is info about that?

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Benjamin Shahrabani
Benjamin Shahrabani
6 years ago

Very cool, but I’m going to have to believe that very few women are going to want to play this…as opposed to say Monopoly, etc…that are a bit more gender neutral and inclusive.

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