It is located in Saudi Arabia and was discovered in 1948/49. Today, it is estimated that 60% to 65% of Saudi Arabia’s oil production from 1948-2000 came from this one oil field. The current Output will be 5 million barrels (1 barrel = 159 liters) per day, which corresponds to approximately 6% of world production (~84 million barrels per day).(1 Barrel = 159 Liter) pro Tag geschätzt, was ca. 6% der Weltförderung (~84 Mio. Barrel pro Tag) entspricht.
Ghawar, located in Saudi Arabia, is the world’s biggest oil field. Set to this background the players represent members of the royal family and try to locate good sites for new oil wells, find and deliver the different oil qualities and ship them to their base camps. However, the oil field is so huge that the players have to memorize where which oil quality is to be found.
Material in the game:
1 game plan
20 drilling rigs in 4 colors
4 trucks in 4 colors
5 locomotives in 5 colors
40 oil stones in 4 colors
4 workers in 4 colors
4 price markers in 4 colors
3 oil barrels
60 platforms
1 game instructions
The game takes place in two phases. In the first phase, players build their drilling rigs. In the second phase, the mineral resources are extracted.
The 36 drilling platforms are laid out in a 6*6 field so that trucks can drive between the platforms.
I have been living and working in a community with adults with intellectual disabilities for 25 years now. In addition to board games, I am also interested in group games. I have already published various books on this subject. I also work in the experiential education sector. Here I also work primarily with people with disabilities.
The central issue is the size of the oil field and this is also the focus. The game board shows a desert landscape on which numerous drilling platforms are already positioned. The players’ task is now to place their own drilling rigs where there is oil to be produced.
At Mücke Spiele we always want to give our games an authentic and thematically interesting background. While in Black Gold that was Spindletop Hill (the place in Texas where the world’s first oil rush took place), in the new game this is Ghawar – the largest oil field in the world.
After initially studying art in Siegen, he switched to the design department in Münster with a focus on game illustration and comics.
Already during his studies he made contact with various game publishers and commissioned them to illustrate games.
The online portal Reich der Spiele reported about the game Schwarzes Gold.