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Mondgewitter

From cloud to cloud

You move through a cloudy sky and try to be furthest in front. A big moon sickle is laid out, Yellow and Green Moons are stacked separately. The rest of the tiles is shuffled and stacked face-down, you are dealt three tiles and have one or two pawns.

In your turn you place up to three tiles, move your pawn and replenish your hand to three tiles. If you do not want to or cannot place a tile you set down one tile open-faced and draw a tile. Placement rules are: You place tiles in a spiral of a maximum of 8x8 tiles and borders of adjacent tiles must correspond. For each of the tile types - Cloud, Yellow Moon, Black Hole, Lightning and Green Moon - there are detailed rules for placement, sometimes you have to move your own or an opponent's pawn when placing a tile.

Tiles that you place in your turn are totaled up to determine the range of movement for your pawn - Cloud gives 2 steps, Yellow or Green Moon 3, Black Hole and Lightning 5 steps. For pawn movement there are also detailed and different rules for each tile type, sometimes you oust pawns and move them to a different tile. When the stack is used up, all remaining cards are displayed openly; you can now only place up to two tiles, but can place any tile that is still available. You win in a game for two players, if you are not in last position, and otherwise if you have moved furthest out on the spiral.

A visually very beautiful game with rather copious rules that does not give you a really satisfactory gaming experience, especially when playing with 3 or 4 players. Tactics from tile placement and use of turn-around movement only work in the early stages of the game.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Ferdinand Hein

Artist: Ferdinand Hein

Price: ca. 23 Euro

Publisher: F-Hein Spiele 2013

Web: www.f-hein-spiele.de

Genre: Place and move

Users: For families

Special: 2 players

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very beautiful design

Works best with 2 players

Does not really work in the later stages of the game, especially in a game for 3 and 4 players

Compares to:

All games with tile placement and movement over tiles

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 2

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