Les Prodiges du Sport

A sports trivia game published in Quebec in 1988. The marketing of this game used heavily the name and image of ex-NHL all-stars player Guy Lafleur. His picture appears on the box cover and on the board, and a letter signed by him is in the box. Another sheet invites people to write in to become a game-club member, in order to get souvenirs and a signed photo. Communications SportStar inc., the publisher of this game, were also TV producers of Hockey-related television programming. The game itself was released to publicize a sports trivia TV show of the same name, then in development, that would have been co-hosted by Guy Lafleur. The show was never produced. The game is a standard trivia game, with questions in 5 categories: Hockey, Baseball, Football, Olympic sports, and miscellaneous. The game is played in two phases. Starting on the inner ring, the player can go in a direction of their choice the number of spaces indicated by their die roll, in order to accumulate 150 points. In the first phase, a player may choose to move to the outer ring. Once they have reached 150, a player will attempt to answer the most consecutive questions in each of the five sides of the outer ring, one per category. Missing a question forces the player to leave that side. A completed side is worth 40 points. The first player to accumulate a total of 350 points wins the game and is named "Prodige du Sport" (i.e. "Sports Prodigy").