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Abetto

ShootouT oVer the Roulette Wheel

Players are gentlemen gangsters on nightly forays on the roofs of the town and collect trophies in the categories Valuables, Romance and Bravery. The game board is laid out with cards representing one- and two-storey houses around a central board that is used for placing bets on the roulette wheel. At the start of a turn a Task Card is turned up, it sets conditions valid throughout the turn for all players. Then each player in his turn chooses three actions from, Moving, Burglary, Shot or Rest; Shot can be chosen only once, the others repeatedly. Moving is paid for with one Fatigue point and additional fatigue points for crossing a road or changing floor levels. Gadgets that you acquire can be used to support yourself or to hinder your opponents.

Confrontations and attempts at burglary are decided by the roulette wheel: players bid on color and parity of the result and win or lose loots of the burglaries or a duel. After seven rounds the winner is the player with the most trophies in his worst category.

Abetto is the first game from a new Polish publisher, all in all a very creditable first work. The first thing you note is the unusual coloring that harmonizes very well with the topic of the game, and of course the roulette wheel standing in for a die roll. That’s a good idea, and lots of fun, too, and also goes well with gentlemen gangsters. The German rules are a bit difficult due to random translation, but with using English rules and the German Help Card you can play without much difficulty. A solid game, if you want all the fun it has to offer use the options stated with the individual paragraphs.

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 12+

Dauer           : ca. 90 min

Autor           : Wojciech Rzadek, Aleksandra Włodarczyk, Michał Kołos

Grafik          : Piotr Bednarczyk, Włodzimierz Chołostiakow

Titel            : ident

Preis            : ca. 35 Euro

Verlag          : Admondo 2010

                     www.admondo.pl

Genre                    : A game of movement, placement and acquisition

Zielgruppe             : With friends

Version                           : multi

Rules                              : de en fr pl

In-game use of language   : no

Kommentar:

Elegant and beautiful design

Roulette as randomizer is a funny and well-working detail

Not-so-good German rules

Well-working English rules

Vergleichbar:

Nizza for topic, Roulette used as a stand-in for dice is new

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