My Favorite French Card Game About Driving

Fellow lovers of card games, you could do a lot worse than the lovely French driving game Mille Bornes.

I first played Mille Bornes on my family's Commodore 64 computer as a lad. Sure, there were snazzier games with lovely sounds and graphics like Impossible Mission and Bruce Lee, but Mille Bornes was pretty darned fun for a text-based card game.

One year my brother gave me a set of Mille Bornes cards for my birthday, though I honestly haven't played the game with real cards as much as on the computer.

I was very happy to have recently discovered mille, a distribution of this game that comes bundled with flavors of UNIX operating systems. I imagine this game has been around for a while, perhaps since the 1980's. Thank you, mille programmer Ken Arnold!



w00t! Check out those two safeties! I have a feeling it's gonna be a good hand.


Please feel free to share your favorite card game, even it isn't French, and doesn't involve driving.