Cartino vintage board game by Ravensburger 1976

Cartino vintage board game by Ravensburger 1976. 

• A board game for 2 - 4 players by D.F. Oudolf 
• Ravensburger Games No. 604 5 114 1

Contents:
Board, 2 sets of 32 tiles, 2 joker tiles, 6 spare tiles, 4 tile racks, 4 score markers, 25 chips, plastic bag.

User manual in five languages; German, French, Italian, English and Dutch.

Game and box are in a neat vintage condition.

CARTINO is an exciting game. The playing tiles have the card symbols, Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades, printed on them and have to be laid on their appropriate spaces on the board. Skill, concentration and a bit of luck, too are decisive!

Object of the game
The 32 tiles are laid on the appropriate spaces of the board. There is room for two identical tiles on each space. Each space has a different score value but the tiles placed only score when they are joined by neighbouring tiles. The last tile place is not counted for the score; the adjoining tiles tell the score. The aim of the players is to play their tiles so that they connect to other tiles of high value. The points scored are marked with the score markers. The player with the highest score wins.

Size box

• Height: 3,7 cm. 
• Length: 33,5 cm. 
• Width: 23 cm. 

Ravensburger AG is a German game and toy 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.

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