Coppit
Encyclopedia
Coppit is a running-fight board game
created in 1927 by Otto Maier Verlag which was originally called Fang den Hut (German for Capture The Hat). It was renamed has been re-released several times, most notably by the Spear's Games company in 1964. It is a game for 2-6 players and is based partly on luck with a die
and partly on strategy. It is similar to the game Ludo
and is nominally a children's game, although adults can enjoy playing too.
Each player has four conical, or hat, shaped playing pieces all of the same colour which start off in their home 'base'. The object is to move out of your base, capture, or 'cop', your opponent's pieces by landing on top of them, carry them back to your base, and 'imprison' them there. A player can have any number of pieces out of their base at any time. However whilst you are moving back to 'base' with a captured piece other players may in turn capture your piece. The winner is the player who has a piece (or pieces) which have not been captured. There are a few squares on the board which are of a different colour to the rest. If a piece is on these squares they cannot be captured.
Board game
A board game is a game which involves counters or pieces being moved on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. Games may be based on pure strategy, chance or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve...
created in 1927 by Otto Maier Verlag which was originally called Fang den Hut (German for Capture The Hat). It was renamed has been re-released several times, most notably by the Spear's Games company in 1964. It is a game for 2-6 players and is based partly on luck with a die
Dice
A die is a small throwable object with multiple resting positions, used for generating random numbers...
and partly on strategy. It is similar to the game Ludo
Ludo (board game)
Ludo is a simple board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to dice rolls. Like other cross and circle games, it is similar to the Indian Pachisi, but simpler...
and is nominally a children's game, although adults can enjoy playing too.
Each player has four conical, or hat, shaped playing pieces all of the same colour which start off in their home 'base'. The object is to move out of your base, capture, or 'cop', your opponent's pieces by landing on top of them, carry them back to your base, and 'imprison' them there. A player can have any number of pieces out of their base at any time. However whilst you are moving back to 'base' with a captured piece other players may in turn capture your piece. The winner is the player who has a piece (or pieces) which have not been captured. There are a few squares on the board which are of a different colour to the rest. If a piece is on these squares they cannot be captured.