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Unser Baumhaus

We build the treehouse together

All players together want to complete the tree house bevor the storm arrives and must place door and windows correctly.

The tree with building site is assembled, the building blocks are prepared. The active player chooses a building tile from one of the stacks; if possible one not yet in the meadow; if that is not possible, you choose one from any stack to set aside for the round. When tools, nails and wood are in the meadow, a building block can be placed. Players confer about their choice – they can only choose one with two free sides – and must adhere to the placement rules: The door must be built in the lowest level, front left, and windows always front right, in every level. When four blocks are placed in a level, players decide together if they want to build another level or the roof. When a weather tile appears in the stack, this stack is closed. When all stacks are closed, the round ends. Then two more such rounds are played. In the third round the weather tile causes a storm that blows one block off the top level of the house. Players win together when a roof could be places and door and windows are correctly placed. A roof can be placed anytime on a level with four blocks.

What a lovely game! The tree is sensational, the building feeling marvelous, the basic rules are simple and the selecting of the building blocks is a nice training for cooperation – no-one can dominate the decisions. Unfortunately luck has quite some influence with weather and finding the door block. As the roof can already be placed on the first level, it depends on the children’s ambition how many levels they try to build.

Players: 2-6

Age: 5+

Time: 20+

Designer: Wilfried and Marie Fort

Artist: Doris Matthäus

Price: ca. 18 Euro

Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2015

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: Building game

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Exceedingly beautiful components

Good training for cooperation

Replay values varies with players

Somewhat chance-driven by weather tiles

Compares to:

In general cooperative games, first game of its kind as regards to type and components

Other editions:

Asmodee, France, Netherlands

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0