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Perpetual-Motion Machine

Place Cubes with Poker combinations

Perpetual Motion Machine introduces an unusual topic for a game, players should try to build the most efficient machine by being the first to place all their cubes on their personal playing mat.

Depending on the number of players you start the game with 20, 25 or 30 cubes, a surplus goes out of the game. Five of those cubes you place in your personal stock, the rest of the cubes are your own so called general stock. Each player is dealt 3 cards, 4 cards are laid out open-faced and the rest of the cards is stacked as a draw pile. Then players place two cubes for a starting situation in the lowest position in the four columns, always different from the placement of other players, both cubes can be in the same column. Then in turn you can take cards or play cards for one of the necessary poker combinations and place cubes from your personal stock, always from bottom to top, or discard cards and take cubes from your general stock into your personal stock. Placed poker combinations earn you advantages, in a series, e.g. the highest card determines the limit of cards in hand for the player and the maximum number of cubes in his personal stock, or you can use cubes from your general stock or from both stocks and so on. The first player to place all cubes wins the game.

Basically, Perpetual-Motion Machine is a simple card collecting game on poker combinations, but with a funny unusual topic and the additional component of clever cube management. Of course it is a bit chance-dominated due to the drawing of cards, but this is mitigated by the open display.

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 8+

Dauer           : ca. 45 min

Autor           : Ted Alspach

Grafik          : not cited

Titel            : ident

Preis            : ca. 17 Euro

Verlag          : Bezier Games

                     www.beziergames.com

Genre                    : Placement game with cards

Zielgruppe             : For families

Sprache        : en

Regeln         : en de

Text im Spiel : nein

Kommentar:

Unusual funny topic

Somewhat luck-determined

Some tactics from open display and additional benefits from combinations

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