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A Weekend in London
Improve Your English
Players are tourists on a tour around London and move their markers over the squares of the board to reach specific sights. At the start you receive a marker, 2 marker chips and 3 travel chips. The “Arrival” cards are shuffled: you draw one of them and place your marker accordingly. Then you receive two picture cards, which you lay out on the table, and place your marker chips on those sights.
In your turn you roll the die and move accordingly, 1-4 squares without pay for the pedestrian or the joker, 1-4 squares with a taxi at the cost of 2 chips, 1 or 2 squares by bus at the cost of 1 chip or you can take the tube and pay 1 chip to travel up to 3 stations and 2 chips if you cover a distance of 4 or more stations. When you reach a site that is marked with one of your chips, your neighbor reads a questions to you and you can discard the card if you answer correctly. You also receive a travel chip and remove your marker from the site. If you rach a site that has no marker and answer correctly you receive the picture card. If the card is already owned by another player, he must hand it to you. If you have managed to discard both your starting picture cards and to acquire a minimum of two other picture cards, you can go back to your starting points. If you reach this with the exact number of steps, you win.
The questions on the cards are posed using two levels of language complexity, not different levels of knowledge. Some of the answers are accompanied by explanations as regards to grammar, meaning and correct use of a phrase or a word. Two more editions for Italian und German are available, editions for Spanish and French are planned for autumn.
Spieler : 2-5
Alter : ages 14+
Dauer : ca. 60 min
Autor : Ines Sharp, Gerhard Grubbe
Grafik : agenten.und.freunde
Titel : ident
Preis : ca. 30 Euro
Verlag : Grubbe Media 2010
Genre : Language and travel game
Zielgruppe : With friends
Version : de
Rules : de en
In-game use of language : yes
Kommentar:
Part of a series of games
Very attractive design
Standard mechanisms, nicely used
Explanations on Grammar, Meaning, etc.
Vergleichbar:
All other travel games
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