Backpackers (game)
Backpackers is a board game developed and produced by Homegrown Games Ltd, a Canadian company. Backpackers is a traditional style board game with some twists. Players travel around the world finding their way to different capital cities. There are 21 of these “flag cities”. Once a player lands in a flag city the player must correctly answer a geography (also science/nature and sports version available) based trivia question in order to receive the flag of the country. The object of the game is to be the player who collects the most flags. When all the flags are gone, the player with the most flags must then return to his/her home city to win the game. To travel around the world players either roll dice or use airline tickets. There is a great deal of randomness as players may fall upon different adventures along the way. A player, in need of extra money, may choose to stop and work or play “craps” in Las Vegas, Monte Carlo or Macao. Each player is eager to disrupt the travel plans of opponents. Strategy is key and skill, knowledge and luck are all factors in deciding the outcome of the game.
Backpackers has a website which allows you to create your own trivia questions that can be used instead of the questions provided allowing literally limitless variations on the game. The template has all the adventures found in the different Backpackers games only there are blank cards to allow individuals to make their own trivia questions. A variety of different subjects are available to be downloaded if one does not wish to make their own. The Trivia Central website also allows people to upload their trivia, and charge others to download it
The packaging is a plastic tube with a strap, and the game itself is printed on a synthetic vinyl material that can be rolled up like maps of old. $5.00 of every game sold is donated to Children's International Summer Villages.CISV CISV is a global community of volunteers running educational and cross-cultural programmes.