I can’t remember why my brother or I were given this game for Christmas in the early 70s but I do remember it was impossibly complicated for us to master. I am talking about the board game ‘Escape from Colditz’.
The memory came back while watching the film Colditz earlier today and I remember the game with little fondness. I can’t really blame mum for buying it she must have seen it on the shelf and thought two boys, Second World War it’s an easy fit. Also at the time the Colditz TV show was on or had just been shown on the television.
I can’t remember what the instruction book was like but we never played it properly and in the end, it was soon discarded. The cover and the board may have looked exciting but without any way to play the damn thing, it was a waste.
Finally, many years later I did play the game and playing it with someone who already knew how to play it which did help. To be honest it turned out to be pretty easy to play maybe we were to young back then and I could be very impatient as a kid.
Pity the internet and video were not around back in the 1970s it would have helped. On YouTube, someone would have made a video on how to play the game successfully.
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