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Galopp Royal box art
1995 Ranked #12,442

Galopp Royal

Racing game has players bid and bluff before sending sedan chairs around the gardens of Versailles. Auction outcomes shape each race, while luck can quickly overturn even a confident plan.

Family Games Dice Racing Auction/Bidding

Players

3-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

9+

Complexity

1.63/5

Rating

5.91

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.1/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

While ostensibly a racing game - a "racing your sedan chair around the gardens of Versailles" game, no less - the heart of Galopp Royal is the auction rounds that precedes each race: a jumble of bluffing, bidding & wild swings of luck.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Auction/Bidding

Bid against other players to determine who receives an item, action, or priority.
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Type

1
Family Games

Category

2
Dice Racing

Mechanism

1
Auction/Bidding

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
3–6
Best with
3–6
Play time
45 min
Age
9+
Complexity
1.6/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Klaus Teuber

Artists

1
Franz Vohwinkel

Publishers

1
Goldsieber Spiele

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