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Juego (El) de Daroca

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	primo autore:	Anonimo
	secondo autore:	Morather (?)
	anno:	2000/15
	luogo:	Spagna-Daroca
	periodo:	XXI secolo (1°/4)
	percorso:	Percorso di 63 caselle numerate
	materiale:	carta (paper) (papier)
	dimensioni:	400X400 (340X340)
	stampa:	Offset a colori
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	numero caselle:	63
	categoria:	Viaggi, escursioni, località, musei, monumenti, turismo
	tipo di gioco:	Gioco di percorso
	editore:	Non indicato
	stampatore:	Non indicato
	proprietario:	Collezione A. Toner
	autore delle foto:	Anki Toner
	numero di catalogo:	2387
	descrizione:	Gioco di 63 caselle numerate, spirale (quadrato), antiorario, centripeto pubblicitario della città di Daroca. REGOLE: allegate. CASELLE: alcune con didascalia. REFERENZA 1 ... However, a couple of weeks ago I was in a little town called Daroca. Even though the "oca" in the name of the town cames from the old celtiberian name of the town Darek or the later arab Calat-Darwaca, they have a goose legend (similar to that of le oche del Campidoglio). That's why there are 6 geese in the town coat of arms. And of course they have made a game of goose (I guess the rhyme was too easy, "el juego de la oca"/"el juego de daroca") which I could not refrain from buying. The game is coloured by hand, they sell it framed (each copy has a different frame, all of them quite kitsch, and different color shades), and it comes with four hand-made wooden counters, which represent the town towers, and a wooden hand-made die. Remember that in Spain we play the game with only one die. As I am sure you know, the other Spanish particular rule is that we do not double the previous throw when we land on a goose. Instead, we move to the next goose and play again (saying aloud "de oca a oca y tiro porque me toca". I talked to the guy who designed the game and of course he did not have a deep knowledge of the game of goose. He just copied a game he happened to have at home substituting the geese for the town towers, and the rest for what he could think of that was related to his hometown. We are lucky enough that Daroca has a prison and a well (and an inn too, of course). He substituted the bridges for a tunnel (an old mine they have) and the dice squares for the old town doors. Nobody in Spain knows what the dice are supposed to be for anyway, since we play with just one die, and the most common rule is to move from one to the other snakes-and-ladders-style. There is an extra goose/tower on square 1, but I would not say that this is unusual in Spain. Since we do not double the throw on goose squares, there is no real need to have them at regular intervals and a goose in square 1 is acceptable. I would bet that there was a goose in square 1 on the board that this guy copied the game from. So far, so good. The weird thing about this game is that the "death" square (which is an enchanted muslim lady, probably a local legend too) is not on square 58 but 59, the next goose/tower is on square 60 and the game has 64 squares. I am afraid the guy drew the wrong number of squares and when he counted the he just did not make a new drawing but added one extra square to the game. Unfortunately I noticed that when I did not have the guy in front of me anymore so I could not ask. By the way, the game measures 40x40 cms with the frame (or 34x34 cms without it). (Anki Toner)
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