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Robot X

household help under construction

Housework is tedious and so you want to construct a robot to do it! You start with seven cards and reveal one card from each type on bonus cards. In your turn you must first draw a card and can then place a card into your bank for auction, up to a maximum of eight cards, cards in the bank have always a value of 100.

Or you can offer a card from your hand for auction with a starting price of 100; all bid in turn in steps of 100 until all but one have passed. If this is the auctioneer, he pays 100 less than his bid. Any other player pays half his bid to the auctioneer, up to the auctioneer’s bank maximum and with the correct number of cards, 300 is 3x100 and not 1x 300, an eventual rest is discarded. If nobody makes a bid, you get the card for free. A card won in auction must be placed into the robot immediately.

The third option is to buy a bonus card – for points for certain robot parts, stars and colors of stars on robot cards. The fourth option is to play an event card for chances in cards in hand or in bonus cards, you own or that of other players

When a player has assembled a complete robot, he scores 10 points for the completed robot – comprising two legs, two hands, one belly and one head, ears are not necessary, they only earn bonuses – and all score for stars on their robot cards, star colors on robot cards and completed bonus cards. Bonus cards that you could not complete score penalty points.

Robot X is a nice, standard card game that is fun to play, offering exactly the right mix of chance in drawing cards, decisions in auctions and usually negative interaction from the event cards.

Players: 2-5

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Michel Baudoin

Artist: Sylwia Smerdel

Price: ca. 11 Euro

Publisher: ST Games / G3 2015

Web: www.g3poland.com

Genre: Set collecting, auction

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en pl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Standard topic

Good mix of familiar mechanisms

Lots of interaction from auction and events

Compares to:

Set collecting games with auction

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 1

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0