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Cuboro Tricky Ways

Ball Path board game

The ball path, for which cuboro is famous, is a standard toy. Now cuboro has carried the principle one step further and has made a game out of the toy: By rearranging cuboro elements you create paths as long as possible leading from the starting tower to an empty finish zone.

The game board has nine positions, on eight of them the cuboro cubes are placed in their starting positions.

In Version 1 you use paths, so-called gorges, on the surface of the elements. You have three choices of how to re-arrange the cubes in this simple version: You can push a cube to a new position, you can turn the cube in its current position and can relocate it to the empty field and can turn it before setting it down. All in all you have three action in your turn, you can do three different ones or three of the same kind, just as you like. Then you place the starting tower and let the ball roll. Very important to remember: You cannot make a path to a finish area already taken, you can only construct paths leading to empty finish areas and this gets more and more difficult towards the end of the game. Each gorge in a cube that you used earns you one point.

In Version 2, which is a bet more difficult you can, if you like, turn the cubes over and use elements inside the cubes for double the amount of points for each used gorge inside a cube. Each player holds a red ball for a joker, which he can discard once in the game to da a fourth action in his turn.

A beautiful game to look at and to touch, with traditional good cuboro quality and with sophisticated mechanisms, a wonderful family game that also poses a challenge to adults.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 30+

Designer: Johannes Guischard

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 100 Euro

Publisher: cuboro 2013

Web: www.cuboro.ch

Genre: Placement, puzzle

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: 11 languages

In-game text: no

Comments:

Beautiful, solid quality

High price is justified by quality and re-play value

Absolutely recommendable for a family game

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First game of its kind

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