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Chromino

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Chromino is a domino-related placement game, which has seen editions in several companies; currently it is re-released with a new package design from Asmodee as a Jubilee Edition. The game features 75 Chromino tiles – each made up from three squares in a row, which can show up to three out of five possible colors – and five chameleon tiles - each showing two colors and a symbol in the middle square. The aim of the game is to be first to shed all your tiles.

One chameleon tile is placed for a starting tile; all other tiles are placed in the bag and you draw eight tiles. In Turn you place a tile in a ways that you achieve a minimum of two contacts between squares of the same color. Contacts between squares of different colors are not allowed. If you do not hold a tile that you can place you draw one from the bag and can place it if possible. You must turn over your last tile so that the other players can assess your chances to win. When you place your last tile you win, but the round is finished so that there is a tie for winning, if someone else should discard his last tile, too. You cannot place a chameleon as the winning tile.

As a variant you can score each tile that you place. Tiles are assigned a value equal to the number of their colors, and you add the value of the newly placed tile to the value of the tiles it touches. A variant for children is listed, too; you ignore the middle square and simply play Dominoes.

Chromino offers a beautiful, attractive and good family game, you can vary the degree of difficulty and also play alone; it is an ideal introductory game into the genre of abstract placement games.

Players: 1-8

Age: 6+

Time: 45+

Designer: Louis Abraham

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Asmodee 2013

Web: www.de.asmodee.de

Genre: Placement game

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de en es

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition; first edition 1999, first at Asmodee in 2009

Attractive components

Simple rules

Level of difficulty easily varied

Compares to:

Domino, Einfach Genial and other placement games

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): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0