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Galapagos

FOLLOWING THE MOVES OF THE BEAGLE

Players embody biologists following in Darwin’s footsteps; they want to discover rare species on the Galapagos Islands and mount exhibitions.

In 12 rounds the phases Bid for a Bearing and Starting player as well as Playing and implementing of action cards are played. For a bearing you offer money, the highest bid in total determines the direction, the player with the highest bid for this direction is start player.

In Phase 2 you play as many cards showing the actual valid direction as you want and implement all card actions; then it is the next player’s turn. Possible actions are Exploration, that is, Movement for money. Expedition to acquire an animal; the direction determines the kind of animals available. Sale of an animal for money, the fixed price for an animal is 600 Pounds. The last action you can choose is Exhibition, mounted with one or more different animals; for each animal you score 2 expedition points; and you might also receive bonus in case of the exhibition meeting the conditions on one of the exhibition tiles in the open display. Two cards in the color of the currently valid direction can be used as a joker for any action.

When all 12 rounds are played, the two players with the best score for exploration score 4 or 2 points, for 1^st and 2^nd place respectively, and each player scores one point for any two animal tiles and one point for 1000 pounds each. You win with most points.

Galapagos offers a challenging mix of auction and set-collection game, you are permanently pondering how to best use the rather chance determined possibilities of the cards.

Players: 2-5

Age: 12+

Time: 60+

Designer: Åse and Henrik Berg

Artist: Hans-Georg Schneider

Price: ca. 37 Euro

Publisher: White Goblin Games

Web: www.whitegoblingames.com

Genre: Placement and set collection game

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr nl se

In-game text: no

Comments:

Some tactics are possible despite chance-determined cards * very individual but interesting graphics

Compares to:

Mix of well-known mechanisms used in many other games

Other editions:

Galapagos, Axel, Poland

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 3

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 2

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0