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Kabaleo

Don’t stand out, but win!

Gigamic Games are noted for their beautiful and classy design combined with interesting mechanisms, and Kabaleo is no exception: The game features 60 cone-shaped playing pieces in six colors plus one cone per color serving as target cone with a color bottom. You draw one of those target cones for your own secret target color. The playing pieces come in two varieties: „Area“ pieces with one color ring and „Figurine“ pieces with two color rings; different numbers of both pieces are used in correlation to the number of players. Area cones are distributed on the table to form a “board”; “Figurines” are either drawn at random or – in case of 2 or 3 players – allocated according to the rules. Then in your turn you place one of your pieces – differently allocated depending on the variety chosen – on either an area or a stack; a stack always has the color of the top cone. You can place a figurine only on areas of different color. If you place a figurine on a stack of another color the stack changes color; if you place it on a cone of the same color, both are taken out of play and the stack reverts to the color of the new top cone. There is no restriction on the height of a stack. When all pieces have been placed you count the stacks in each color. If the majority color is your secret target color you win the game. In case of a tie you win with most stacks.

As mentioned before, this is a classy and beautiful game, looks impressive and is nice to play; depending on the number of players you have a maximum of 9, 10 or 12 moves so you must use the pieces of opposing colors cleverly and keep an eye on the area colors.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Jean Luc Renaud

Artist: Design France

Price: ca. 23 Euro

Publisher: Gigamic 2011

Web: www.gigamic.com

Genre: Abstract stacking game

Users: For families

Special: 2 players

Version: multi

Rules: 24 languages

In-game text: no

Comments:

Absolutely beautiful components

Simple basic rules

Plays fast and easily

Compares to:

All stacking games with the top piece defining the stack, e.g. Focus

Other editions:

Currently none

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