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Panic Lab

Striped Gliding amobae in the air Vent!

25 square tiles show cute, funny colorful aliens/creatures/amobae, and sometimes a piece of laboratory equipment, and are laid out face-up in a circle. All players try, starting from the tile determined by a dice roll, to find the amoeba that corresponds to the dice results in color, shape and pattern.

One player rolls all four dice and all start in their mind at the tile determined by the die in direction of the arrow of the rolled color; this is the direction the amoeba took to escape. If you are first to touch the correct amoeba you earn a chip. If you are wrong, you must discard a chip, of course provided that you already own one. The amoebas can sometime disappear through an air vent; then you ignore all tiles between the first air vent you reached and the next one in the circle.

But that is not all - some of the laboratories in the circle are mutation rooms - when an amoeba has passed one of those rooms, it changes either its color, its shape or its pattern. All in all an amoeba only survives four mutations, then it disappears forever - in this case you win the chip of the round if you are first to touch the mutation room which made the amoeba dissolve. When the correct amoeba or the correct mutation room has been identified and the chip handed out, you roll the four dice for the next amoeba that must be found. If you are first to collect five chips you win the game.

In this little game in a tin, too, Gigamic remains true to its principles - Panic Lab is a simple, but not easy game, attractive and quickly explained. It is fun to follow the amoeba through its mutations and be first to spot the correct one.

Players: 2-10

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Dominique Ehrhard

Art: Maxim Cyr

Price: ca. 9 Euro

Publisher: Gigamic 2012

Web: www.gigamic.com

Genre: Dice and spotting game

Users: For families

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: 20 languages

In-game text: no

Comments:

Handy packaging in attractive tin

Simple rules

Funny drawings

Compares to:

Rinks Lechts and other games with goal spotting based on changing parameters

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