Schollen Rollen
Secure your catch or risk it?
Catching fish by rolling dice! You use four dice, 40 yellow plaice of value 1, 24 red plaice of value 5 - you can swap five yellow plaice at any time for one red plaice, or vice versa - and the box bottom for your net. You always use all yellow plaice in a game and between 8 and 24 red plaice, depending on the number of players. The symbols on all dice are either one or two plaice, a fish hook, a doubling symbol or water.
The active player rolls all four dice - no plaice symbols in the result is a failed roll and the turn passes to the next player. Plaice symbols in the result give you as many plaice for your net. Each doubling symbol doubles the number of plaice; so, two doubling symbols give you four times the number of plaice symbols in your result. A fish hook allows you to take your catch either from stock or from another player - but if the selected player has not enough of them, the rest of your catch is forfeit. Water in the result has no effect. Plaice in your net are not yet secure, because you must now decide if you roll again or stop and take all plaice from the net. If you roll again and in the new result - for which you first MUST set aside and not use all dice that showed water or doubling in the previous result - you have no plaice, you lose all; otherwise, you take the resulting plaice and decide again. When the last plaice is taken from stock, you win with most points from your catch.
Well, this is a typical Knizia of the simple variety, solid craftsmanship for a nice mix of standard mechanism in an attractive, quick game that thrives on the dilemma of risk vs. safety.
Players: 2-8
Age: 8+
Time: 20+
Designer: Reiner Knizia
Artist: Steffen Gumpert
Price: ca. 8 Euro
Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2017
Web: www.amigo-spiele.de
Genre: Dice, risk/safety
Users: For families
Special: Many players
Version: de
Rules: de
In-game text: no
Comments:
Good mix of mechanisms
Nice family game
Simple rules
Compares to:
All “Risk vs Safety” games
Other editions:
Currently none
Chance (pink): 3
Tactic (turquoise): 2
Strategy (blue): 0
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 0
Memory (orange): 0
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 1
Dexterity (green): 0
Action (dark green): 0