For dice and card game lovers who like a fast pace, the Blitzed Board Game from Ravensburger is an innovative game that combines the two. This game involves all players rolling their dice at once to try to achieve a dice combination that matches the task cards on the table. Points are given and taken away using the lightning cards as players gain and lose with each round. The player with the most lightning cards at the end wins!
Lightning Speed Game for All Ages
A winning combination of dice and cards, Blitzed gives fans of fast-paced games a thrilling way to try their hand at rapid fire. A fun choice for family game night or a rainy afternoon with roommates, its simple rules make it easy to pick up while its speedy pace keeps play exciting. Suitable for ages eight and up, this is a great game to play with children who are just becoming more advanced with numbers and coordination as well as with adults who like a challenge. Luck of the dice combined with strategy make this an intellectual game that still leaves some outcomes up to chance. Bring this game to a babysitting job to jazz up playtime or play it with roommates or older members of the family. The game is suitable for three to five people, so you can try out different combinations depending on who's home and up for the challenge.
Ready…Blitz!
Each player is given three dice, a thunder card, and eight lightning bolts. A series of task cards are laid out on the table indicating different dice combinations and a sum. Just above the task cards are corresponding win/loss cards that indicate final points that will be awarded or taken away at the end of the round. Once someone yells "Ready…Blitz!" all players begin rolling and trying to match their dice to the task cards. Once you've matched your three dice with a task card, you place your thunder card on top of it and the corresponding win/loss card. At the end of each round, the win/loss cards determine how many lightning cards each player gains or loses. The player with the most lightning cards at the end is the winner.
Twist on an Old Favorite
Dice is a classic game that people have been enjoying for generations. This makes Blitzed an especially fun game to play with multiple generations at once, such as on family holidays or while visiting the grandparents. Kids will love the fun lightning and thunder cards arena and the action of trying to roll as quickly as possible without knocking dice to the ground, which helps them learn patience and coordination.
Ravensburger History
Ravensburger Spieleverlag GmbH is a German game company and market leader in the European jigsaw puzzle market.
The company was founded by Otto Robert Maier with seat in Ravensburg, a town in Upper Swabia in southern Germany. He began publishing in 1883 with his first author contract. He started publishing instruction folders for craftsmen and architects, which soon acquired him a solid financial basis. His first board game appeared in 1884, named "Journey around the world".
At the turn of the 20th century, his product line broadened to include picture books, books, children’s activity books, Art Instruction manuals, non-fiction books, and reference books as well as children’s games, Happy Families and activity kits. In 1900, the Ravensburger blue triangle trademark was registered with the Imperial Patent office. As of 1912, many board and activity games had an export version that was distributed to Western Europe, the countries of the Danube Monarchy as well as Russia.
Before the First World War, Ravensburger had around 800 products. The publishing house was damaged during the Second World War and continued to produce games in the years of the reconstruction. The company focused on children's games and books and specialized books for art, architecture and hobbies, and from 1962 grew strongly. The company started to produce jigsaw puzzle games in 1964, and in the same year opened subsidiaries in Austria, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In 1977 the company split into a book publishing arm and a game publishing arm.
Today there are approximately 1,800 available books and 850 games as well as puzzles, hobby products and CD-ROM titles at Ravensburger and its subsidiaries, which include Alea for "hobby and ardent game players" and FX Schmid for games and children's books. Ravensburger products are exported to more than fifty countries.
In September 2010, Ravensburger broke Educa's record for the world's largest jigsaw puzzle of 24,000 pieces. Ravensburger's new puzzle design by late pop artist Keith Haring titled, 'Keith Haring: Double Retrospect' breaks the Guinness Book of World Records measuring 17' × 6' built from 32,256 pieces and comes with its own dolly cart for toting.
