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Jungle Race

overtaking, overtaking ....

Car race in the jungle – five animal hold a race! Five track cards are laid out in given sequence. At the beginning, you place one animal randomly next to each track card. 50 pilot/animal cards are stacked face down and every player draws seven cards from the stack. In a round, you have one move in turn and play one card openly on the table; the pilot depicted on the card switches places with the pilot immediately in front of him; if, however, you play a card for the pilot in the lead, he goes to last position and all other pilots move up by one position. If you pass your turn, you are out of play for the round and put your remaining cards face-down. If nobody can play anymore, you take all your cards – face-up and face-down ones – and score them for positions of the respective pilots. All your cards for the pilot in the lead are worth three coins each; cards for the pilot in second place give you two coins each and every card for the pilot in third place gives you one coin.

For the next round all pilot cards are shuffled and you are dealt seven cards again; the player at the left of the starting player of the previous round becomes the new starting player. After three such rounds you win with most coins. If you want, you can of course play a longer race with additional rounds.

A nice mechanism for a children’s game which also works well as a family game, despite being rather chance-driven. You can only work with the cards you are dealt at the start – playing them, however, is better than passing, unless you would have to place an animal for which you had four cards, into last position.. Counting cards only helps a bit.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Simone Luciani

Artist: Roberto Grasso

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Cranio Creations 2018

Web: www.craniocreations.it

Genre: Race game

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: en it

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition of Frutti di Mare, Piatnik

Good mechanism for children

Nice family game, too

Topic and mechanism go well together

Compares to:

Other editions:

Currently none, earlier as Frutti di Mare (2010)

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