Presentation

NOVA LUNA

A Somewhat different neighbor hood aid

The „new moon“ circles the display of tiles, also arranged in a circle. You can access each of the three next tiles from your position,  counted in clockwise-direction from the moon. The tile you take is paid for with time spent and you move forward accordingly on the 24 hour circular track.

An expensive tile with many time increments means longer waiting for your next turn, as the active player is always the one in last position on the track. Stipulations of time-intensive tiles, however, are more easily fulfilled. What must be fulfilled? Neighborhood relations - there are up to three such task stipulation on a tile. When a part task demands three red neighbors, they all may be directly adjacent or connected over a red queue, with only one tile directly adjacent. This is valid also for the other three colors. If, however, a task demands all four colors, the tile must have four different neighbors, which is much harder to achieve. For each task that you complete you may discard a marker. Whoever has discarded all his markers first, wins.

Your own display - usually compact placement is more advantageous - grows and gets more confusing. Of course it would be better not to provide assistance for others, but it is impossible to keep an eye on everything. You should, however, at least keep track of your neighbor’s options, which means work for some players. Despite simple rules, a rather complicated topography usually evolves in the display. If you not only see the option on offer, but is able to use them, you will win. The solo version, too, works very well and is fun to play.

Jörg Domberger

Players: 1-3

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Uwe Rosenberg, Corné van Moorsel

Artist: Lukas Siegmon, Klemens Franz / atelier198

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Editionn Spielwiese / Pegasus Spiele 2019

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Placement, abstract

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Version: multi

Rules: de en + cz es fr it nl pl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Revised version of Habitats

Very beautiful design

A bit convoluted at the end

Keeping an eye on your neighbor is recommended

(c) Image Ilya Ushakov

Compares to:

Habitats, Cwali

Other editions:

Edition Spielwiese (fr), DJama Games (it), Lucky Duck Games (pl), SD Games (es), Stronghold Games (en), TLama Games (cz), White Goblin Games (nl)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 3

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0