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CRABS

Stash the right Color!

Players are out to fish for crabs with their ships. The crab tiles placed are in the bag, each player chooses a color and the number of crab figurines necessary for the number of players is set out. You draw 6 crab tiles from the bag and place them behind your screen.

In your turn you must place one crab tile and can take a crab and put into the storage hold of your ship in front of your screen.

To place a crab tile you slide it into the board from any direction, in a straight line until it meets an obstacle, that is, another crab or an island. Empty spots must remain reachable in a straight line. You try to create groups of crabs in your color, which are connected along the sides of the tiles. Only groups of 3 or more crabs score positive points, a single crab is worth -1, 2 crabs are worth 0, 3 crabs score 1 point, 4 crabs earn you 3 points and 5 or more crabs in a group are worth 5 points.

In the storage hold there is only room for one crab of a color and no crab of a given color can be placed on the same multiplier as with another player. If you are the first one to place a pink crab on x3, you block x3 for pink in other players’ holds. The crab color on a multiplier scores you the points for crabs in that color. When all tiles are placed, the scores for groups of crabs in each color are determined and marked on the scale. Then each player scores points according to the color of the crabs in his hold.

Crabs is basically a simple group formation game, but the detail of the storage hold is crafty, you need a good balance between greed and too early revelation of your choices!

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 7+

Dauer           : ca. 30 min

Autor           : Adam Kałuża

Grafik          : Piotr Socha

Titel             : Kraby

Preis            : ca. 20 Euro

Verlag          : Granna / Red Glove 2010

www.granna.pl

Genre                    : Placement game for group formation

Zielgruppe             : For families

Version        : en

Regeln         : pl en it

Text im Spiel : nein

Kommentar:

Granna games at Red Glove since 2010

Simple rules

Attractive design, good components

Indirect scoring by choosing crabs is a clever detail

Vergleichbar:

Ingenious and other games on scoring color groups

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