Francis Tresham's Legacy

The main focus of Phase 2 is making his last completed game - The Judge in Circuit - available. This game started development around 1985 and was considered complete in 2018, and although most of the components had been printed, the games never got assembled and made generally available to the public. (A few copies did make it out into the wild...)

I now have the bulk of the components, and am taking it to the finish line on behalf of the family. It is definitely not 18xx. It is a much lighter game, includes dice (well, one...), and your task, as someone on the wrong side of the law, is to be the first to get into a specified number of prisons. As Francis said himself, if you don't win you can always point out that winning this game is morally indefensible. It is meant to be fun, so don't spoil things by trying to take it seriously.

There is an entry for the game on BoardGameGeek, although there is precious little information there at the moment.

It is difficult to know how much interest there will be in this game. To that end, my approach will be to invite expressions of interest so that I can tell how many rule books to print, how many shipping boxes to order, and so on. Once I have that and am able to start assembling games, I will work through those expressions of interest in the order they were received, and start delivering the goods.

In the meantime I have recreated the rule book, had the Trial/Prison board adjusted and reprinted, and added some additional cards to help track the game state.

You can view the rule book before you decide whether this is for you.