Vintage Game Board El Juego de la Oca

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Vintage Game BoardEl Juego de la OcaParchesi board on the reverse.Wood Frame13 x 13 inchesCirca 1950'sEl Juego de la Oca is a board game for two or more players. Each player moves his card by a spiral-shaped board with 63 boxes with drawings . Depending on the box in which you can fall forward or backward instead, and some of them indicated a punishment. On his turn each player rolls two dice (or one depending on the different versions) that show the number of boxes that must move. Win the game the first player to reach the box 63, "the garden of the goose."The first commercial versions of the game appeared in the 1880s and were decorated with motifs alluding to the time, such as children's clothing at the time. It is assumed that the first version of the game was a board game donated by Francesco I de 'Medici of Florence to Philip II of Spain between 1574 and 1587. In June 1597 the London John Wolfe gave written evidence of the existence of the game.