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Snow Tails 2

Snow Tails was published in 2008 and is a bit of a cult game amongst race game, and as it was so nice the designers, Gordon and Fraser Lamont, have picked up the topic once again - we again ride sleighs in Alaska, this time the snowy landscape is dotted with beautiful trees and buildings, too.

In principle, you play with the mechanisms from Snow Tails: You can play a canine card in your turn, then adapt the bonus die, if both canine cards in front of the sleigh do show the same value, then you can move your own sleigh and use an optional bonus movement and, finally, replenish your hand to five cards. The canine cards determine the speed and direction of your sleigh; different speed values on the two canine cards make your sleigh drift, but you determine yourself when the drifting happens, that is, when you change track. Collisions can happen, but you can also instigate them on purpose for tactical reasons: You must take a dent card, trees that you hit go out of the game.

In this version all brakes are off, literally - there are no rules for braking your sleigh and no speed limits. Buildings introduce bonuses, but are hard to race around; the board now has tracks drawn on instead of coming in parts and if you have five dent cards you start with a new sleigh at the back of the pack.

As in Snow Tails the first reaction is "wooooooow", after the first games then "niiiiiiice, good fun" and a little bit later again " not as complex as Snow Tails, but tactical all the same", and finally "want it!", and that is the only snag, because as with all Fragor Games at that point you can only hope for a new edition!

Players: 1-8

Age: 12+

Time: 30+

Designer: Gordon und Fraser Lamont

Artist: Judith Lamont

Price: ca. 50 Euro

Publisher: Fragor Games 2013

Web: www.fragorgames.com

Genre: Race game, cards

Users: With friends

Special: 1 player

Special: 2 players

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Revised new edition of Snow Tails

No brakes, no speed limits

Houses bring bonuses and advantages

Eight different tracks

Compares to:

Snow Tails, Ave Caesar and other card-driven race games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0