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Rifftaucher

Fish and their mirror images

Rifftaucher is made up from 48 tiles which can be laid out to form four mirror images of fishes in a coral reef. For two players you lay out two of the four images, that is 24 tiles, 4 of them open, 20 face-down. For four players you use all 48 tiles and you turn up 6 of them, 42 remain face-down.

In his first turn each player takes an open-faced tile and places it for his picture.  From then on you place tiles horizontally or vertically adjacent to tiles already in the picture and have three choices: 1) you take one of the open-faced tile for your picture 2) you turn up three cards in a row – if one fits, you place it in your picture and put the others back and – after the first turning up of three pictures – 3) you can turn up one of the cards that were turned up before and place it when it fits, and – if it fits – turn up two more cards. This way of turning-up tiles follows rather strict rules. When all face-down cards have been turned up once, phase 1 ends. In Phase 2 you can either take a fitting open-faced tile or you turn up any of the face-down tiles. If it fits you can turn up one more card and place it, should it fit.  If you find a mistake in your picture you can relocate the tile or remove it from the picture and put it back face-down into the grid. You win if you are first to complete your picture. If you want to you can use all 48 tiles in a game for two, playing the big version, in this case you win if you are first to complete both pictures.

As all games by Ferdinand Hein this one, too, is colorful and very beautiful and offers a tricky challenge to enjoy and master.

Players: 2, 4

Age: 7+

Time: 30+

Designer: Ferdinand Hein

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 21 Euro

Publisher: F-Hein-Spiele 2011

Web: www.f-hein-spiele.de

Genre: Placement and memo game

Users: For families

Special: 2 players

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Playable for two or four

Very beautiful design

Available also as Rifftaucher Monster Collector’s Edition with illustrations by Louis Renard

Compares to:

Other placement games with a memo mechanism, puzzles

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

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Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 0