Subbuteo Rugby
BGG rank
BGG #26,549
BGG rating
5.7

Subbuteo Rugby

1970

Rules assistance for Subbuteo Rugby

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2 players
  • 30 min
  • Complexity 1.2/5

Rules assistant for Subbuteo Rugby

For 2 players

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Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.

Subbuteo Rugby is a board game released in 1970 for 2 players and 30 minutes per game. It was designed by Peter Adolph.

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About the game

In Subbuteo rugby, you flick small plastic players on a cloth pitch to take possession of a small plastic rugby ball (similar shape to an American football). The rules included most elements of the sport of rugby - lineouts, scrums, offside, tries, kicked goals, etc. The game also included a number of specialized plastic components: figures which swung their kicking legs to "kick" the ball over the plastic goal posts; a plastic wedge to "loft" the ball; and a large rugby-ball shaped randomizing device into which the smaller ball was dropped to decide scrums.

Designers

Publishers

  • (Unknown)
  • Subbuteo Sports Games, LTD

Questions and answers

Subbuteo Rugby supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.