Trivia / Star of Africa

• Ascended House Rules: It was possible to have a situation where nobody can win the game; players required money to move across sea, and if the Star was on an island and nobody had money, or the players were stuck on the islands without money, the game was Unintentionally Unwinnable. After more than 50 years of various house rules to prevent this, a re-release finally added an Obvious Rule Patch that fixed it by making it possible to slowly move across the sea for free.
• Follow-Up Failure: Star of Africa was a big hit in the Nordic countries and remains popular as of the 2020s. The Mission-Pack Sequel game Inkan aarre came and went without much fanfare. The same can be said about the original game's 2014 Expansion Pack Retkikunnat.
• Outlived Its Creator: The expansion Retkikunnat was released eight years after the death of the original's designer.
• Sequel Gap: The game was released in 1951. It received the sequel Inkan aarre in 2005 (54 years later) and the expansion Retkikunnat in 2014 (63 years later).