Cycle 100 km to the woods, heath, sea and lakes. Hinder your opponents with flat tires, head winds and other inconveniences. Stap Op is a classic Dutch card game about one of Holland's favourite pastimes: cycling.
In the days before television and computer games, Dutch families loved to gather around the dinner table on dark winter days to play all kind of board and card games. One of the games they would have played is the card game Stap Op, which could be translated as ‘Hop On (your bike)'.
Stap Op is actually an adaptation of the US car racing game Touring (1906), only in the Dutch version the automobile has been replaced by the bike. It is not clear when Stap Op first came on the market. The general consensus among board game enthusiasts seems to be that Stap Op, 'the new cycling game', was originally released in the 1950s by toy producer Sio. However, in its collection Museum Rotterdam has an earlier version by Perry’s Engros Bedrijf dated 1930-1940. Stap Op has been reissued several times and is still available today.
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