HomeMy WebLinkAboutLakeshore Advance, 2012-11-07, Page 514 Lakeshore Advance • Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Board game challenges racing strategy
Gord Whitehead
Chad Wilcox has a passion for auto-
mobiles. He makes a living selling them
but the self-confessed "race car nut"
part of his character has driven him to
develop a board game whose players
assume all the roles as drivers, crew
chiefs and owners.
"You get contact like a real race-
track," the 'Tedford resident told The
Advance. "My cousin and buddies came
and played, These guys are race car nuts
like myself, I didn't realize how
engrossed they'd get in the strategy."
Each player, up to eight at a time,
starts the game with four tire chips, 10
fuel cells and four Bump "N Run cards.
Roll of the dice determines the lanes in
which each racer starts.
Procedures and opportunities for
changing lanes, passing or bumping
opponents are described in the website
www.bumpnrunboardgames.com.
The Bump 'N Run game is not a
sudden development. Wilcox conceived
the idea in the early 1990s and laid otrt a
prototype on construction paper. He did
some updated versions, made some
unsuccessful overtures to Canadian
gameboard manufacturers and eventu-
ally started soliciting quotes via the
Internet, connecting eventually with a
firm in China which has produced an
initial run of 1,000 games.
To help reduce the game's purchase
price to $30.00, Wilcox has sold 12
advertising squares around the board's
track. "I decided I'm going to stay local
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Chad Wilcox has begun rolling the marketing dice on a Bump 'N Run board game he says duplicates "what's
real" at the stock car racetrack. The final product Is on the table in front of him and in the background is one
of a series of prototypes that date back to 1993 when he laid out his first design on construction paper.
and they all jumped in"
"I think board games are
coming back in a big way," Wil-
cox commented. "It should last
you a lifetime."
The boards have been selling
at Car Quest in Watford, Zavitz
General Store in Thedford and
Wallis Nissan Sarnia where Wil-
cox is sales manager. "I'll be at
Delaware Raceway to sell them
selling In the spring"
Wilcox said his father was
tech director at Delaware. "I and
my whole fancily grew up at the
track."
Chad and wife Charlene are
parents of two sons and a daugh-
ter. "I have lived in and around
Thedford most of my life," he told
The Advance.