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dalapapa

Tile on tile for circle on circle

Dalapapa is a placement game for colored circles, based in the tradition of domino. Each of the 120 double-sided tiles, called dalapapa, shows one complete circle in the center and 6 half-circles around it. There are four colors, and all four are always present on a dalapapa, but only three of them on one side of the dalapapa.

For the start of the game each player draws one dalapapa and places it. Then in your turn you always draw 2 dalapapas and place one of them to score points. It is possible to place the second dalapapa, too, but you pay a penalty of 4 points to do so. You must place each dalapapa in a way that mono-colored circle are formed, bi-colored circles are not allowed. Of course you can turn a dalapapa any way you want before placing it to form at least one circle. You score 1 point for the 1^st and 2^nd circle and 2 points for the 3^rd and any additional circle that you manage to form by placing a dalapapa. In addition to this you score one point for each circle of the same color in the group that contains a newly formed circle. You play in rounds until one player tops the pre-agreed score, then you finish the round and the player with the highest score wins.

Dalapapa is a very pretty version of the form-groups-by-continuing-colors-or-shapes mechanism. We met the designer at Cannes and he made us a gift of the game, a well-working family game with very simple rules, in which it can very often make sense to pay the penalty for placing the 2^nd dalapapa to achieve a high score before the next player takes the advantage to do so!

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 7 and up

Dauer           : ca. 30 min

Autor           : François Haffner

Grafik          : not cited

Titel            : ident

Preis            : ca. 25 Euro

Verlag          : Art of Games 2007

                     www.dalapapa.com

Genre                    : Placement game

Zielgruppe             : For families

Sprache        : de fr en it nl es

Regeln         : de fr en it nl es

Text im Spiel : no

Kommentar:

Solitaire play is possible

Well-known mechanisms, nicely combined

Penalty for placing a 2^nd tile is an interesting detail

Vergleichbar:

Domino, Einfach genial and other continue-shape-or-color games

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