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The Magnificent Race

#2256BGG ↗

1975 · 2-4 players · 60min · weight 1.16 · 310 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
2256
Name
The Magnificent Race
Year
1975
Rank
10107
Min players
2
Max players
4
Playing time
60
Min playtime
60
Max playtime
60
Avg weight
1.1622
Num weights
37
Bayes avg
5.58693
Average
6.34629
Users rated
310
Num owned
619
Wanting
11
Wishing
52
Num comments
143
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (2)
Betting and BluffingRoll / Spin and Move
Categories (5)
Children's GameNauticalRacingTrainsTransportation
Description (1036 chars)

Fun game where 2-4 players use various means of travel to win the race. You buy cards to gain advantages in the mini races on certain types of modes of travel. The races are conducted with marbles in a spinning roulette style wheel with only one hole. The marble that lands in the hole wins that race and moves 3 pegs along the race track from NY around the world to NY. Beware of the purple marble though. He is the non player Dastardly Dan and he is in every race and may indeed win the game! This game bears a very vague resemblance to Wacky Races and may have been inspired by the cartoon, though one is not a reprint of the other. A complete game appears to consist of the following: • A Magnificent Race spinner • A deck of 24 Advantage cards • 4 Vehicle cards • 4 Arrow Markers • 20 Racing marbles - 5 of Each Color • A "Dastardly Dan" purple Marble • Play money (30 bills each of $5000 and $10,000) • A Progress Peg Chart • 5 Pegs • 1 Die • A Race Track Playing Board

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.