HELVETIQ, The Swiss Game (offered in French)

HELVETIQ is a new board game about Switzerland. It launched in French on November 11th 2008.

Helvetiq contains in its box two games, a trivia that lets you play and learn at the same time, and another game about this country's political system. It might even help you through the citizenship test.

"The first of the two games n the box, which is emblazoned with the Swiss flag, is a Trivial Pursuit-type board game. The questions include classics, like 'who wanted to imprison William Tell', more modern ones like 'how did the Swiss inventor of Velcro come by chance across his invention', and the downright contemporary 'who are the Freitag brothers?' Two to four players must work their way along a line of cows at the top of the board and reach a chalet to claim victory. The second game allows players to play the role of politicians and climb the Swiss political ladder from commune or municipal level to a place in the federal cabinet. They must create laws at appropriate times." Jeremy Allen, Swisster