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Construction Zone

Who is the fastest Builder?

You want to be the fastest builder of all! In each turn you receive resources that you collect and then use by and by to set up buildings. The card stacks for special buildings and necessary building materials and a display of building material cards are prepared according to the rules; each player begins the game with four cards from the basic building material draw pile. In your turn you draw two cards from the display and replenish the display with cards from the draw pile; then you may swap two of your cards from your hand for one building card and may then set up a building – you can choose any one of the three face-up top special building cards in the stacks. To set up such a building you lay out and then discard the combination of material cards shown on the building card. It is possible to overpay, but do not get back any change. Later in the game special buildings can also appear in the draw pile, as the joint discard pile is reshuffled for the new draw pile. Those cards can be taken like basic cards from the display or can be acquired by swapping two cards from your hand for such card. If you are first to set up 5, 7 or 10 buildings in case of 4, 3 or 2 players respectively, you win.

First of all you notice the pretty and attractive graphics in this game from Lithuania, and then the compact rules that leave nothing to be desired; the game itself is an ideal family game using standard mechanisms which are easy to explain, easy to understand and easy to implement. Not a “great” game, but a nice family game and a well-made example for the still very new game production in Lithuania.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Oliver Sihiveer

Artist: Gints Rudzītis, Aldis Rocēns

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: Brain Games 2012

Web: www.brain-games.com

Genre: Collect, swap, place

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Lithuanian Publisher

Good, compact rules

Standard mechanisms

Very attractive graphics

Compares to:

All games on collecting and swapping card combinations

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

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