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Let’s take a hike

Caution! BEAr or SKUNK!

Players are hikers on a trek through the forest and start with seven cards in hand. The cards show items that might be useful for a hike, and also the place where they fit into the backpack or your hand. Each player has an invisible backpack on the table, with five spots arranged crosswise for top of the pack, left pocket, middle of the pack, right pocket and bottom of the pack, plus a space for left hand and right hand. Each of those places can only be used for one item and the footprints on the cards show the total weight of an item. When there are several possible spots for an item the item can be in the pack more than once. In your turn you draw a card or place a card into the pack or play a risk card. If you believe that you have enough items in the pack you announce a hike. Other players can join the hike. Then cards are turned up one by one from the stack; if the currently revealed item is not in your pack you must discard cards from your hand showing the same number of footprints as the item card revealed. You can decide to leave the hike at any time and pick up a card from those previously drawn for victory points. If a risk card is turned up, the hike ends and the risk card is implemented. The last player in a hike takes all remaining cards drawn for the hike for victory points. When all cards have been used you win with most prints on the cards taken for points.

Let’s take a Hike is a nice card collecting game with an unusual topic, a simple mechanism and the right mixture of luck in drawing cards and a bit of tactics in joining the group and leaving the group at the right time.

Players: 2-5

Age: 6+

Time: 30+

Designer: Aaron Lauster

Artist: Troy Cummings

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: Stratamax Games 2011

Web: www.stratamaxgames.com

Genre: Card collecting game

Users: For families

Version: en

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Enchanting drawings

Unusual, attractive topic

Good mixture of luck and tactics

Compares to:

All set-collecting games with cards

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0