Once again, the fluidity of this game's rules and intentions, both in its original and this most recent edition, can be seen in the winning conditions. There’s only two ways for a player to get their pieces out of solitary; either through the use of an Opportunity card, or by rolling doubles, at which point a single point of movement can be used to release a POW.

As you should by now have realised, this anniversary edition is an all-embracing package, which celebrates and extends both the original game and the background that led to its original production. He had chiseled through the hard concrete floor of his cell, abseiled down the 60-foot drop with little more than a fraying rope around his waist to trust and squeezed through slicing threads of severed barbed wire. Humphries's concluding words of advice are, "first, keep on the move and second, plan escape attempts carefully. While the Allied players got to run around the castle hoping to nick the stall car, collecting skeleton keys and wire cutters and hoarding Red Cross cigarettes with which to bribe the guards, the German player just marched around with his dogs hoping to fall into a tunnel. So I’ve been eagerly anticipating the release of this game for a few months now, and playing it did not disappoint!

While it might show its age in terms of gameplay, this new edition of Escape from Colditz is a gorgeous set for tabletop and history fans alike. As the introduction spells out, the intentions have not been to use "decades of game development" to create a modern remake which would have led to "something entirely new.

The Escape Kit consists of Civilian Disguises, Magnetic Compass, Food, false documents, maps, and money (Reichmarks). The original box of both these editions featured a swastika; in later editions, this was replaced by an Reichsadler (Imperial eagle). This is a window into the life of Pat Reid, and the experiences he had during the latter stages of the war. For starters the only truly hidden information is what Security and Opportunity cards are being held, so the Security Officer is always aware of what equipment players are picking up.

PoW teams aim to obtain Escape Kit and Escape Equipment, both essential to making an escape attempt. As briefly commented on, you can be wholly nostalgic and simply play using the very same rules that I experienced for the first time back in the late 70s, a few years after its first publication. Remember, this is a remastering of an old classic, so with that in mind – this is a roll and move game.