Touring is a specialty card game

Card game

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. Originally patented by the Wallie Dorr Company and produced in 1906, it was picked up by Parker Brothers in 1925
.

It is widely believed the popular French

France

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 card game Mille Bornes

Mille Bornes

Mille Bornes is a French card game. In the United States, Mille Bornes is manufactured and distributed by Winning Moves Games under license from Hasbro. It was previously produced by Parker Brothers and is commonly available in stores that sell games...

 was derived from Touring. After several revisions, Touring was discontinued shortly after Parker Brothers picked up the American license of Mille Bornes.

Updates to editions

The original Wallie Dorr edition was a small red box with 100 cards. They updated the game to a side by side wider box which Parker Bros used for their first edition of the game after they purchased it.

Periodically the Parker Bros. Co. adjusted the card art and subsequently the images became more modern, and increased the mileage cards. Until the final edition, game play remained unchanged, jut the denominations of miles increased as the trip length and comfort of automobile travel increased. The final edition reversed the trend and went retro with artwork closer to the original Model-T era cars and adjusted the card totals with an addition of two new delays.

Play Variant

In each copy of the directions were an option to play progressive touring, in which multiple tables of 4 would play simultaneously.

Cards of select editions

Type of card	Year of issue	Count	Denomination	Change from previous
Mileage	1906	20	1 Mile	n/a
Mileage	1906	10	3 Miles	n/a
Mileage	1906	10	5 Miles	n/a
Mileage	1906	12	10 Miles	n/a
Delay	1906	3	Collision	n/a
Delay	1906	3	Out of gasoline	n/a
Delay	1906	2	Puncture	n/a
Remedy	1906	8	Hauled in	n/a
Remedy	1906	8	Gasoline	n/a
Movement	1906	15	Go	n/a
Movement	1906	4	City Limits	n/a
Movement	1906	5	Country	n/a
Mileage	1937	19	1 Mile	1c fewer
Mileage	1937	10	3 Miles	n/c
Mileage	1937	10	15 Miles	10 mi more than 1906
Mileage	1937	12	30 Miles	20 mi more than 1906
Delay	1937	3	Collision	n/c
Delay	1937	3	Out of gas	n/c
Delay	1937	2	Puncture	n/c
Remedy	1937	8	Hauled in	n/c
Remedy	1937	8	Gasoline	n/c
Movement	1937	15	Go	n/c
Movement	1937	4	City limits	n/c
Movement	1937	5	Country	n/c
Mileage	1957	19	5 Mile	4 mi more than 1937
Mileage	1957	10	15 Miles	12 mi. more than 1937
Mileage	1957	10	25 Miles	10 mi more than 1937
Mileage	1957	12	45 Miles	15 mi more than 1937
Delay	1957	3	Collision	n/c
Delay	1957	3	Out of gasoline	n/c
Delay	1957	2	Puncture	n/c
Remedy	1957	8	Hauled in	n/c
Remedy	1957	8	Gasoline	n/c
Movement	1957	15	Go	n/c
Movement	1957	4	City limits	n/c
Movement	1957	5	Country	n/c
Mileage	1965	19	25 miles	24 mi. more than 1937
Mileage	1965	10	35 miles	32 mi. more than 1937
Mileage	1965	10	50 miles	35 mi. more than 1937
Milage	1965	12	75 miles	45 mi. more than 1937
Delay	1965	3	Missed curve	replaced Collision
Delay	1965	3	Stopped to refuel	replaced Out of gas
Delay	1965	2	Broken spring	replaced Puncture
Delay	1965	2	Brake adjustment	New
Delay	1965	2	Burning oil	New
Remedy	1965	7	Wrecker	1c less, replaced Hauled in
Remedy	1965	7	Gasoline	1c less than 1937
Movement	1965	13	Go	2c less than 1937
Movement	1965	3	Populated area	1 less than 1937, replaced City limits
Movement	1965	6	Freeway	1 more than 1937, replaced Country

• 1906 Mileage Cards

  One mile:20

  Three miles:10

  Five miles:10

  Ten miles:12

• 1906 Delay Cards

  Collision:3

  Out of gasoline:3

  Puncture:2

• 1906 Remedy Cards

  Hauled in:8

  Gasoline:8

• 1906 Movement Cards

  Go:15

  City limits:4

  Country:5

• 1906 card total:100

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• 1937 Mileage Cards

  Three miles:10

  Fifteen miles:10

  Thirty miles:12

• 1937 Delay Cards

  Collision:3

  Out of gasoline:3

  Puncture:2

• 1937 Remedy Cards

  Hauled in:8

  Gasoline:8

• 1937 Movement Cards

  Go:15

  City limits:4

  Country:5

• 1937 card total:99

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• 1965 Mileage Cards

  Twenty-five mile:19

  Thirty-five miles:10

  Fifty miles:10

  Seventy-five miles:12

• 1965 Delay Cards

  Missed curve:3

  Stopped to refuel:3

  Broken spring:2

  Brake adjustment:2

  Burning oil:2

• 1965 Remedy Cards

  Wrecker:7

  Gasoline:7

• 1965 Movement Cards

  Go:13

  Populated area:3

  Freeway:6

• 1965 card total:99

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External links

• link to 1906 Wallie Dorr rules facsimile