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Food Chain

Wer frisst wen Tief im Wald?

Players create food chains as a mirror-image of nature, you hunt and feed in the forest and compete for the best food.

The game comprises 52 cards with twelve different animals, items or special functions like hunter or a swarm of bees. You have four cards in hand and four cards are displayed on the table to form the forest. Each animal card shows an animal, its food, its position in the food chain, the animals for which this animal is prey and the score for hunting this animal.

You play in turns and can choose one of five actions in each turn: Hunt, Feed, Retract, Swap cards or Pass. To hunt you cover a card with your own – symbols for feed and hunter must correspond – ant mark it. It is possible that several cards are played onto one card. You can feed when your own animal card is the one in highest position in the food chain of all cards played to the prey card; you take it and set it down. You can only retract a card if it is available, then you take it back and also take back the marker. Available cards can be swapped for cards from you r hand, when the card from your hind is higher up in the food chain. If you choose to pass you discard a card and draw a new one. The hunter can catch any animal card once, the swarm can chase away any animal or the hunter, from a food chain once. If passing is the only possible option left for all you score for cards and markers you collected.

This is a nice family game with a rather high element of chance, and risk, too, because if you hunt you offer your hunting animal for prey and also the marker! But if you do not take risks, you go hungry!

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Meelis Loover

Art: Raimo Koppel, Gints Rudzitis

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Brain Games 2012

Web: www.brain-games.com

Genre: Card game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en + fr nl ru

In-game text: no

Comments:

Pretty design

Basically simple mechanism

Game much dominated by the chance element of drawing cards

Compares to:

Games with formation of sets and series

Other editions:

Russian/Estonian edition, Print & Play edition

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