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Blue Lagoon
Settling south Sea Islands
In the Southern Seas, we explore and settle an archipelago of eight islands. 24 resources – coconuts, bamboo, water and precious stones – and eight statues – are randomly drawn and placed on the island stone circle cases. Depending on the number of players, you have 30, 25 or 20 double-sided settler discs – boat side and settler side - and five village pieces of your color. In two phases - Exploration phase and Settlement phase – you try to achieve the highest score all-over.
In the Exploration phase you place a settler on any water case – boat side up or a settler/village adjacent to one of your own already in place. If you place settler/village on a stone circle, you take resource or statue. When all stone circles are empty, or all players have placed all settlers and villages, you score for presence on islands, chains of settlers and villages, the number of villages on islands and for resources you own.
In the Settlement phase you remove from the board all settlers, all resources that are left and all villages that were placed on stone circles. Then all stone circles are again filled with randomly drawn resources and statues and then you place again settler or village; in this phase you can only place a piece adjacent to a piece already in place, and you can only claim a water case if it is adjacent to one of your pieces. When all has been placed or collected, you score the board as in the exploration phase and win with the highest total score.
A family game par excellence and pure fun to play! The rules are super ease and you cannot really go wrong, unless you try to score high in all the categories that are possible.
Players: 2-4
Age: 8+
Time: 45+
Designer: Reiner Knizia
Artist: Tomek Larek
Price: ca. 30 Euro
Publisher: Blue Orange Games 2018
Genre: Placement, collecting
Users: For families
Version: multi
Rules: de en es fr it nl pt ru + cz fi kr pl se
In-game text: no
Comments:
Very simple rules
Attractive material
High replay value
Compares to:
All placement games with collecting elements
Other editions:
ADC Blackfire (cz), Amo Oy (se, fi), Funiverse (pl), Mandoo (kr)
Chance (pink): 2
Tactic (turquoise): 3
Strategy (blue): 0
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 0
Memory (orange): 0
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 3
Dexterity (green): 0
Action (dark green): 0