Game Night: Mille Bornes and Phase 10

Play a game from the library’s collection, bring your own, or play Mille Bornes and Phase 10, a pair of classic card games where you race through the French countryside in Mille Bornes and make and take tricks in Phase 10.

Mille Bornes means one thousand milestones. On French roads there are small marker stones giving the distance in kilometers to the next town. In this famous old French card game, players compete to drive 1,000 km, dealing with hazards along the way. Draw a card to your hand, play or discard. You must lay a green traffic light to start, play cards showing mileage, dump hazards (e.g. flat tire, speed limit) on the other players, remedy hazards (e.g. spare tire, end of limit) from yourself, play safety cards (puncture proof), and try to be the first to clock up the distance.

Phase 10 is a rummy-like card game where players compete to be the first to finish completing all 10 phases. Phases include collecting runs of numbers, collecting certain number of a given color cards, etc. The first player to finish completing the 10th phase wins. In case of ties, the player with the fewest number of points wins.

Teens and adults.

Registration appreciated.