Colditz: The Board Game | James May's Top Toys | BBC Studios

James May relives playing the fiersome and tough, Colditz board game. Taken from James May's Top Toys.
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[@GravityBoy72]

Loved that game.

[@mpbrickteam708]

I am from Colditz…. ❤ this is a Great Game 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@thethirdman225]

Nice town

[@stevewoody63]

An amazing game, we cracked it and even modified it to make it harder to escape, very fond memories of this as kids

[@thethirdman225]

I loved that game. I remember playing it with my brother one night. He was the Brit and I was the nasty German. I managed to discover all his escape plans and finally, frustrated, he decided to do a run for it, a 'do or die', as it's called in the game. To stop him I had to roll a double six… Which I did on the very last throw of the game!

[@raggeragnar]

In Sweden , in my lower teens , some boardgames from Britain and US found their way to our shops. In the boxes of those games , there were leaflets with ads for other games. Including ”Colditz”. We were fascinated by the pictures and slogans , but no one ever got hold of a copy. The TV show never viewed here. Fast forward 10+ years and there was a version for the Amiga 500 available. We were not dissapointed. I still have my 500 , and the CIB game , and I still play it a couple of times every year. Have NEVER got all 4 guys out at once. EVER.

[@prangmasterflash5590]

what is your display picture

[@raggeragnar]

@@prangmasterflash5590 : if you mean the one next to my name here in the comments , it’s the chubby Jupiter Jones from the kids books series ”Alfred Hitchcock and the 3 investigators and (fill in the blanks)”. He was a imaginative role model for the 12 year old me in the 70’s.

[@nickrice3078]

Fond memories of playing this as a kid at Xmas while all the adults are getting drunk downstairs!

[@sadboyflrn5641]

Colditz is my hometown lmao

[@Markus_Andrew]

If James thinks the "Colditz" game is long and complicated, he should take a look at "Campaign for North Africa" (he probably has though). In recent years, this game featured in an episode of the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory", but I remember it from back in the day (late 70s), even though I never played it. is acknowledged to be one of the most, if not THE most, complicated board game ever devised, and a single game of it can easily last for six to eight weeks, or even longer. And yes, the map which Sheldon spreads across the floor in TBBT is the actual map ("board") from the game - 3 metres, or 10 feet, in length. Definitely one for the die-hards.

[@richardsanders4624]

Still got my game

[@richardmaloney9156]

The game has recently been re-issued so I dug out my old version and we played using the new rules (which are an improvement). I had a ball... playing the Germans.

[@FlokGaming]

In England Colditz is a realy big deal but in Germany the castel isnt well knowned, if you are asking people in Leipzig about Colditz the most really dont know what to say thats a littel bist strange I think, for me as a German its interresting how the English people are dealing with the town and the castel and how big the myth about Colditz is, and how often you see english numberplates in the region around Colditz and the river Mulde up to Grimma and so on ;)

[@jackreaper2352]

The English are under some delusion that they won the war. As a culture they have been defeated ever since.

[@jmc0075]

@@jackreaper2352 idiot

[@mdj9636]

@@jackreaper2352 Buddy, the USA compared to Germany in terms of culture, I think we got off good, especially today.

[@bpg9992]

British not English

[@cyberleaderandy1]

@@jackreaper2352 that would be the culture thats being destroyed by biden and his lackies and was started by us, the Brits, in the first place.

[@jblazeby]

This game isn't as bad as James makes out. I have it and what's wrong here is there are only two players. With three or more players it gives more distractions to the guards and allows more escapes.

[@Chakra_king]

I had that exact version

[@AndrewofWare]

I loved 'Colditz' when it was first shown (the programme that is). Please repeat it BBC (or at least put it on i-Player).

[@RHTeebs]

Britbox also.

[@chrisgironde6669]

It’s on KZbin

[@jiffcat]

My wife gets colditz if she forgets to wear her vest. I used to cheat by moving the staff car card to the top of the deck when the German went to the toilet.

[@brianwilson49]

The game is ace 😊

[@nathanjedrej792]

My great uncle was in colditz for most of the war so he didn't mind the gerries but he hated the French because they gave him and his troops up!

[@marvellvalentino469]

Douglas Bader was in Coldizt Castle

[@thethirdman225]

So was Giles Romilly, a nephew of Winston Churchill. Airey Neave, who went on to become a Tory MP, was also a prisoner in Colditz and the first British prisoner to make a 'home run'..

[@jackreaper2352]

For you the war is over

[@jdrancho1864]

The Brits had 'Colditz', the US had 'Hogan's Heroes'. What does that tell you?

[@fuzzface8252]

Yeah, but the man that played Lebeau on Hogan's Heroes was actually in a concentration camp in Poland at first, and then sent to Buchenwald. Counting him, there was 13 people in his family, 12 of them ended up in Auschwitz, and he was the only one that lived.

[@thethirdman225]

Nothing much.

[@paulo_f1]

At 12 years old I wouldn't mind to play as the germans

[@lord_scrubington]

is there anywhere I can et this show, or is it now lost media?

[@SandyPaulus]

That's a board gaming nightmare.

[@luke_rs]

It's actually pretty good. He makes it sound like it's all luck based and confusing (there are about 10 rules and the rulebook is only 2 pages). There is a lot of strategy and careful planning can help mitigate the dice rolls. Also, you can refuse to submit to Appel, which means the guards do a general search, and if they can't see you, you are safe. It's a product of its Era, but like Cosmic Encounter, is one of those 70's games that was way ahead of its time.

[@johnbarry1965]

I had this game when I was about 9. Never played it once, needed to do a degree to understand the rules. The only use it ever served was my Mum used the board to cover up a draughty vent!!!!

[@stonkez8452]

"Warm it isn't, in Colditz".

[@orop]

Why are you making an easy game complicated? How do you not get it? The rules are simple

[@majorhorstmohn709]

I much preferred Buckaroo or Der Hungry Hippos well carry on..

[@vendeux]

My dad used to play as the Germans and would always pop out of nowhere just as we were about to escape outside the wire 😂

[@AnthonyFrancisJones]

Brilliant game and loved it as a child and, yes. the shortest rule book but the most complicated rules ever! Would it now be illegal to own this in France for example where any Nazi insignia is banned?

[@thethirdman225]

They are only banned for public display.

[@dimitriskokkos1369]

1:40 - 1:52 Hahahaha....

[@MRB1157]

First!!!

[@3556df44]

This boardgame is in need of a modern facelift and re-design. It's so boring by today's standards.

[@AudieHolland]

Replace the Germans with Americans and rename the game Guantánamo.

[@oddballsok]

@@AudieHolland or Chinese guards and Uygur inmates ?..add the feature of organ harvesting.. Or Turkish guards on Armenian and Kurdish inmates ? Or Arab royal guards keeping female liberal princesses locked up ?

[@AudieHolland]

@@oddballsok Nah, we'll go with Guantánamo.