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Torreta

Challenge for builders!

Torreta tries to find the most diligent builder - the game features building blocks in five colors and also in five shapes; blocks of the same shapes come in different colors, but all blocks of a color show the same number of dice pips. There are thick and thin disks of varying sizes, and thick and thin cylinders, also of varying heights.

The aim of the game is simple, you need to construct the biggest stack with those blocks and can play either with the color or the pip dice. If you play with the pip dice, the result and the game are entirely chance-driven, as you have to stack the block selected by the die. If you use the color die, you can try first tactical consideration and decide if you take the thin or thick orange cylinder or if one of the orange disks would be better.

You take a block as rolled and add it to your own stack. If you topple your stack, you have either lost the round and all play a new round or you can give back all your blocks and start again. If you play with the number die, the Six is a joker and you can choose a block; in case of the color die, White is the joker. When the last block of a color or number has been used, you win if you have the highest stack.

A new edition in an attractive tin, and again and still an exceedingly simple game that provides a lot of practice for many abilities and skills - a first pattern recognition for numbers, training of hand-eye coordination and also of spatial thinking and assessing of equilibrium - when using long narrow blocks my stack will certainly get higher, but will I manage to place the long, narrow block safely on my stack?

Players: 2-4

Age: 4+

Time: 10+

Designer: Edith Grein-Böttcher

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 28 Euro

Publisher: beleduc 2016

Web: www.beleduc.de

Genre: Dice, stacking

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: cn de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simple rules

Practice for many abilities

First tactical considerations with the color die

Compares to:

Torreta, Bausack and other stacking games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3