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Paletto
Clever removal of pieces
A simple wooden board shows 36 dents arranged in a 6 x 6 grid. 36 pieces of different colors, six each in white, yellow, green, red, blue and black, are placed in the grid well-mixed and at random. When placing the colored pieces you must only comply with one rule - two pieces of the same color may never be placed next to each other horizontally or vertically, but they can be placed diagonally adjacent.
In your turn you choose a color and remove one or more marbles of this color from the board. For this removing of pieces there is one rule and one rule only, too: You can take off a marble if at least two of its sides are free of neighbors, that is, the marble is “approachable” and if the removal of the marble leaves the rest of the marbles on the board still orthogonally connected. Thus you can only remove corner marbles in the first turns: if there are more than one of the same color you can take all of them, even if they sit in different corners, because you always decide on one color and remove all stones of this color that comply with the rule of approachability. If you take the last marble off or if you own all six marbles of a color, you win. The game is available in two different versions featuring cylindrical pieces instead of glass marbles.
If you like abstract games and like to play them with more than one player Paletto is a game for you and your family. If offers a simple, immediately approachable mechanisms, which all the same allows for some tactic at the end of the game - will my opponent overlook that he frees the last red stone for me if I free a fourth blue one for him?
Players: 2-3
Age: 6+
Time: 15+
Designer: Dieter Stein
Art: not named
Price: ca. 18/28 Euro
Publisher: Gerhards Spiel und Design 2011
Genre: Abstract collecting game
Users: For families
Users: For experts
Special: 2 players
Version: multi
Rules: de/en
In-game text: no
Comments:
Two versions available
Good family game
Unusual, simple mechanism
Compares to:
All abstract games with removing/collecting pieces
Other editions:
Currently none
Chance (pink): 0
Tactic (turquoise): 3
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