Fetchez la Vache! 3-in-1 Game Set includes: Custom-designed beechwood board, 2 dice catapults, 21 meeples (20 human, 1 bovine), 4 dice, 1 doubling cube, 30 checkers, and rules for THREE games. 1 - Fetchez la Vache! A madcap backgammon-based game that pits two teams against each other in a race to capture a cow and leave the field with it alive, all while dodging catapulted farm animals and scathing insults French taunts. (Note: this activity requires the Monty Python s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme core book.) 2 - Squashez l'Anglaise! Flip the board over and let fly with this point-based, historically accurate, terribly violent castle-siege simulator. 3 – Backgammon! A fully functional backgammon board (for those who wish to appear smarter than people who play checkers but can t be arsed with chess). Specifications and components: A custom-designed and illustrated birchwood game board. Approximate dimensions: Open: 17.13" long x 21.65" wide x 1.48" high (43.5cm x 55cm x 3.75cm); Closed: 17.13" long x 10.83" wide x 1.48" high (43.5cm x 27.5cm x 3.75cm). 21 printed wooden meeples of varying shapes and designs (knights, priests, retainers, and the like...plus the cow, of course). 2 fully functional and highly dangerous to mice wooden dice catapults. A pair of woefully under tested, wonderfully launchable dice. A pair of cow bags for storage. Storage of game components. Not recommended for cows. Oh and all the bits for backgammon, too: 15 black checkers, 15 white checkers, and 1 doubling cube Castle wall divider for increased difficulty and more realistic farm animal trajectories.

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