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36, a poor score in SRSS
ZSSK's ES499.1 362 014, with both pantographs raised, seen at BHS soon to depart with Urpin service R837 to Banská Bystrica.
In the popular family board game Slovak Railway Station Scrabble (commonly known as SRSS) Bratislava Hlavna Stanica will net the player a score of 36. Although to some this may seem a decent score, regular players will know that the 'Holy Grail' is Železničná Stanica Podunajské Biskupice which will yield a total of 82 points. According to the official rules of the game, each player must play the full name of a railway station in the current Slovakian networth, the majority of stations (unlike BHS) include 'Železničná Stanica' in their name so at least 39 points are assured on most rounds of a game - the letter scores are obviously the same as in the original Scrabble (Z being worth 10 for example).
The game is played by two to four players on a square game board but unlike the original version in which the game board is made up of 15x15 (inch) grid of cells (individually known as "squares"), each of which accommodates a single letter tile, in SRSS the board (not surprisingly) is set out on a 40x40 game board, consequently the standard game board used in europe is 102 cm (slightly over 1 metre) in width and so is usually played on the floor or a very large table.
Ironically the borough of Podunajské Biskupice (a village incorporated into the city in 1972) is on the south east margins of Bratislava and is actually only 3 stops and 15 minutes up SK 131 (Ciganskej Štreke) from my home address. In full honesty there is another location which also yields a board-busting 82 points - (Železničná Stanica) Oravský Podzámok in the north of the country near the Polish border - but I chose to give the glory to my near-neighbours in this narrative.
SRSS - the idea Christmas gift for all the family!
36, a poor score in SRSS
ZSSK's ES499.1 362 014, with both pantographs raised, seen at BHS soon to depart with Urpin service R837 to Banská Bystrica.
In the popular family board game Slovak Railway Station Scrabble (commonly known as SRSS) Bratislava Hlavna Stanica will net the player a score of 36. Although to some this may seem a decent score, regular players will know that the 'Holy Grail' is Železničná Stanica Podunajské Biskupice which will yield a total of 82 points. According to the official rules of the game, each player must play the full name of a railway station in the current Slovakian networth, the majority of stations (unlike BHS) include 'Železničná Stanica' in their name so at least 39 points are assured on most rounds of a game - the letter scores are obviously the same as in the original Scrabble (Z being worth 10 for example).
The game is played by two to four players on a square game board but unlike the original version in which the game board is made up of 15x15 (inch) grid of cells (individually known as "squares"), each of which accommodates a single letter tile, in SRSS the board (not surprisingly) is set out on a 40x40 game board, consequently the standard game board used in europe is 102 cm (slightly over 1 metre) in width and so is usually played on the floor or a very large table.
Ironically the borough of Podunajské Biskupice (a village incorporated into the city in 1972) is on the south east margins of Bratislava and is actually only 3 stops and 15 minutes up SK 131 (Ciganskej Štreke) from my home address. In full honesty there is another location which also yields a board-busting 82 points - (Železničná Stanica) Oravský Podzámok in the north of the country near the Polish border - but I chose to give the glory to my near-neighbours in this narrative.
SRSS - the idea Christmas gift for all the family!