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Viva San Fermin!

Viva San Fermin! simulates the annual Bull Run of Pamplona with all its elements of bravery, euphoria, foolhardiness, fear and adrenaline. Each player controls a runner, one bull and one ox.

The herd is set up and then you choose the starting point for your runner; you receive bravery points for the distance between your runner and the front most bull of the herd. The race itself follows the usual scheme - the first on the track moves first, be it animal or runner, the others follow in sequence. Movement is only possible forward or diagonally forward, movement itself is directed by cards; that of the bulls by bull cards and that of the oxen by oxen cards; both can be of values between two and five. Runners always have a movement allocation of two steps. Animals get at runners when an animal enters the square with a runner from a square immediately behind the square with the runner. If you trample a runner with your oxen, you receive a hoof token for one point; if you gore a runner with your bull you receive a horn token for two points. If you are caught by a bull you are out of the race for this section and lose your bravery points. Should you finish the track section successfully, your bravery points are turned into victory points. In addition to ox and bull cards you hold special cards which can give you advantages or disadvantages as regards to other players. After four track sections you win with most victory points.

The standard mechanisms in Pamplona are nicely spiced up by the topic-related details; the pretty figurines, too, introduce lots of flair; all in all this a nice game with a tantalizing topic.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Massimo Pesce

Art: Gtower.it

Price: ca. 35 Euro

Publisher: Ghenos Games 2011

Web: www.ghenosgames.com

Genre: Race game

Users: For families

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Unusual, but interesting topic

Very pretty components

Standard mechanisms with nice, topic-related details

Compares to:

Palio and other race games based on famous races

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

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Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

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