Intellect Games made a series of board game

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...

s in the 1970s. Many of these games were notable in that they did not rely on chance

Probability

Probability is ordinarily used to describe an attitude of mind towards some proposition of whose truth we arenot certain. The proposition of interest is usually of the form "Will a specific event occur?" The attitude of mind is of the form "How certain are we that the event will occur?" The...

. The outcome of the games was dependent on tactics.

Games

Hare and Tortoise

Hare and Tortoise

Hare and Tortoise is a German-style board game designed by David Parlett in 1974 and first published by Intellect Games. In 1978 it was released by Ravensburger in Germany, where the game became a huge hit. It has since sold some 2 million units in at least ten languages, including two known...

(1974) — A race game where forward movement cost carrot

Carrot

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s, and moving backwards gained carrots. You also gained carrots by being in the right place at the right time, which required you to outguess your opponents.

Worldbeater — A game linked with a brand of Dunlop

Dunlop Rubber

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 tyres. Travel round the world visiting places, the more the better. Then come back again, re-visiting the same places.

Cabbie

London Cabbie

The London Cabbie Game or Cabbie is a board game in which players drive taxicabs through the streets of London to collect fares. It was designed by David Drakes and first published by Intellect Games in 1971.The board shows a map of the major streets of central London. The game is on display at...

— Drive a taxi

Taxicab

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 around London

London

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, avoiding traffic jams

Traffic congestion

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 and collecting fare

Fare

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s.

Thoughtwave (board game) — A simple track laying game, where each of two players has the same set of tile

Tile

A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, or even glass. Tiles are generally used for covering roofs, floors, walls, showers, or other objects such as tabletops...

s to use to lay a continuous track across a board, while blocking your opponent, or making them run out of necessary tiles.