# Remember Mille Bornes?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-mille-bornes/610665>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [January 26, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-mille-bornes/610665 "2012-01-26T01:29:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-mille-bornes/610665/21 "2012-01-27T17:48:35Z")

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> [@Duke](#):
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> It’s rare example of a cultural artifact being taken from the US by a foreign country, then sold back to the US as a “foreign thing.”

[Sudoku](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku#History) arguably also fits that category.

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-mille-bornes/610665/22 "2012-01-27T18:21:53Z")

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We played it all the time - the card game - growing up in the 80s.

Seeing that everyone else played it in the 70s reinforces my claim that my family was always a decade behind.

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-mille-bornes/610665/23 "2012-01-27T18:48:04Z")

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> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> We played it all the time - the card game - growing up in the 80s.
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> Seeing that everyone else played it in the 70s reinforces my claim that my family was always a decade behind.

I played it growing up in the 80’s as well. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Lips\_Obsession](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bbce88/32.png) [@Lips\_Obsession](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lips_Obsession)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-mille-bornes/610665/24 "2012-01-27T20:45:57Z")

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I’ve always wanted a version of this for the computer. I’ve searched and searched.

Only one I see currently online is:

[http://www.danduda.com/Portals/0/Milestone/Milestone.html](http://www.danduda.com/Portals/0/Milestone/Milestone.html)

There is a “sorta” version for Android phones called “miles”. Never liked how that one played - too hard to manipulate the cards.

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**Author:** ![alfonzos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alfonzos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alfonzos)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-mille-bornes/610665/25 "2012-01-30T01:30:08Z")

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Variant for when you play face-to-face: Any two remedies are wild. You still only draw one card to begin your turn as a penalty for using this variant. It speeds up the game.

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**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-mille-bornes/610665/26 "2012-02-02T02:32:44Z")

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You can get a text version on many Linux distributions.

[http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Mille](http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Mille)

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-mille-bornes/610665/27 "2012-02-02T03:15:45Z")

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Played this as a kid. It seemed to eventually have been replaced with the simpler\* Uno\*.

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