Cover art for Tjuv och polis

Tjuv och polis

1943 · BGG
Avg rating
4.34
Bayes rating
5.38
Weight
1.55 (Light)
Players
2-6
Playtime
2 hr
Ratings count
251

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Description

Classic Swedish children's game about robbers and police. One player is the police and gets (no. of players +1) police pieces and the radio car, while the others get a robber piece each. Robbers try to rob banks and post offices, occasionally stashing their money in hideouts where it's safe for the time being, and finally 'escaping the country' (=exiting the board) by rail, plane or ship, while the police naturally tries to catch them. Caught robbers get a 'jail sentence' of d6 turns, but may also try to escape each turn on a roll of 6; four arrests will eliminate the robber from the game, though.

In a rather morally questionable fashion, the police always gets a 'bonus' from whatever money a caught robber happens to be carrying, and the winner is the player with most money in the end - whether robber or police!

Contains:

1 board
6 police men
1 police car
5 thieves
1 six-sided die
Money bills: 
15 10,000,-
20 5,000,-
25 1,000,-

There is also a children game from the same theme:

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Mechanics

Dice Rolling Roll / Spin and Move

Themes

None recorded

Publishers

AS Company Alga Brio AB Oy Fenno-Alga Ab

Designers

(Uncredited)