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Coup (board game)

board game published in 1975

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ116055591 ↗
Source-derived summary

Coup (also called Holiday AG) is a board game published in 1975 by F.X. Schmid.

Contents

Coup is a game in which players obtain the most shares in the largest continuous line of cities visited.

Reception

Brian Walker reviewed Holiday AG for Games International magazine, and gave it a rating of 8 out of 10, and stated that "Holiday AG is ideal for 2 to 6 players looking for a quick break rather than a world tour."

Holiday AG won the 1988 Essen Feather award.

Holiday AG was nominated for the 1990 Deutscher Spiele Preis.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 1988, 1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975. For this dossier, Coup, board and game is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Coup (board game)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.