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Pictures in the eye of the storm
A new Finnish publisher presents the – at least to my knowledge – first game on tornadoes. Players take pictures of tornadoes and rival to achieve the best average score for their pictures. In your turn you place a card on the action stack and draw a card, the action stack may never be searched. If you want to acquire points you hit the action card stack and draw off cards equal to the number shown on the stack’s current top card. You may not change the sequence of cards in the stack. The cards you took go into your personal score stack.
You cannot take cards from the action card stack in your own turn! When several players hit the stack the cards go to the fastest player. If there are less cards in the stack as you could draw you must take all available cards and place them face down under your score stack, they are worth 0.
The top card in your score stack shows your current location. If a tornado is turned up showing this location you must place your card face down under your score stack. There are other special cards: Genius turns worthless cards back into valuable ones, Robber loses you all valid score cards, Wedges give + score modification markers. When “Game over“ appears you determine the average value of the pictures in your score stack. After three rounds all compare their lowest average from all rounds, if you have the highest of those you win the game.
Tornado Alert is an unusual game with a rare topic and some interesting mechanisms, absolutely good for families with a good mixture of chance and tactics, a bit high on chance due to the action cards in the picture stack.
Spieler : 2-6
Alter : ages 8 and up
Dauer : ca. 45 min
Autor : Ilmu und Joel Nurminen
Grafik : Ilmu Nurminen
Titel englisch : ident
Preis : ca. 20,00 Euro
Verlag : Hyptic 2010
ww.hyptic.net
Genre : Card collecting game with a photo topic
Zielgruppe : For Families
Mechanismen : Collect cards
Kommentar:
Unusual topic
Equally unusal mechanism for scoring
High proportion of chance from event cards
Vergleichbar:
For the topic both Loch Ness games, Tricky Safari
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