Conspirators

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Photo shows the board at the end of the first stage of play for four players.

The Conspirators is a French game of the very late eighteenth century, probably played on both sides of the channel during the Napoleonic Wars.

The game is played on the intersections of a 16 x 16 squared board. It can be played by two players, with twenty pieces on each side; or by four players, with ten pieces each. The pieces have to  escape to the thirty-nine marked sanctuaries on the board’s periphery. The player who manages to get all of his men away to safety first wins.

Leather board, 18" x 18", with wooden pieces, which are supplied in a leather pouch. With rules and historical notes.

• Leather board
• Playing pieces of beech wood
• Twenty each of natural and black pieces
• Ten each of red and blue pieces
• Pieces supplied in a leather pouch

Historic Period or Date:

• Late seventeenth to eighteenth century

Materials and Special Features:

• Leather board
• Beech wood pieces
• Leather drawstring pouch
• Unusual among historic strategy board games in being playable by more than two players

Dimensions:

• Board: 18" x 18"
• Playing pieces: 3/4"