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Sarena

From the desert sands to the game board

The bottom of the game box promises us a game that was resurrected from the sands of time and shaped from the ruins of our past, an ancient game with new challenges:

The aim of the game at least is simple: You want to have most pieces at the end of the game. This you should achieve on a board showing 36 circles in a grid of 6x6 circles, connected by lines. At the start of the game you draw a marker to determine your own secret target color, you should try to keep it secret till the end of the game. Players have alternate turns and you must make a move, you cannot pass. A move comprises moving a piece or a stack of pieces from one circle along a line into another circle. When the target circle is empty it must be marked arrows in order to be used and you must turn over the piece or stack upon arrival there. When the target circle is already occupied by a piece or stack, the moved piece or stack is not turned over upon arrival. Stacks cannot be split and the maximum height for a stack is four pieces. If no piece or stack can be moved anymore each player reveals his secret color and takes all pieces of this color and all stacks on which the top piece shows this color and counts the pieces so collected. If you managed to accumulate more pieces than all other players you win.

As is the case with nearly all other abstract placement game this one too has a very simple mechanism, you must always keep a close watch on all of the board and try to secure your own stacks quickly without letting out your own secret color too soon. To manage both is a real challenge that is not easy to fulfill!

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Christophe Boelinger

Artist: Clovis Gay, Jean-Charles Mourey

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Ludically 2011

Web: www.ludically.com

Genre: Abstract placement game

Users: With friends

Special: 2 players

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl ru

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice components

Especially for fans of abstract games

Places nicely for 2 players

Compares to:

Other abstract placement games with stacking, Reversi or Rolit for turning pieces over

Other editions:

Currently none

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