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Aufbruch ins Abenteuer

Race of Hot Air Balloons

On a signal hot air balloon with adventurous courageous animals for passengers start a race around the world. But the baskets can only ascend when there are exactly as many balloons of the same color as there are travelers in the basket. You want to send off most travelers and stop the game at the right moment.

The game features Basket cards, Balloon cards and Target cards; all cards are shuffled and stacked face-down, each player is given a cogwheel. The active player draws a card from the stack or from the set-aside ones and looks at it by himself. If it is a Basket card you can keep it and lay it out open-faced; it shows how many balloons of the corresponding color you need for the basket to rise. You can only have one incomplete ship for each animal. When you draw a Balloon card you can keep it, if you have the corresponding basket card, red for dogs, turquoise for cats and grey for badgers. If you draw a Target card, you can lay it out open-faced or face-down. When all balloons for are basket are collected, you can start a new one for this kind of animal. Cards that you could not use are set aside face-down. Once in the game you can hand in your cogwheel and do another turn.

If you place the third open-faced Target card, the game ends. For each adventurer in your completed baskets you score one point and win with most points.

"Aufbruch ins Abenteuer" offers a very pretty and cute card collecting game with a nice topic and also first tactical moves with the timing of Target card placement and also from using of cards set aside by other players in combination with his visible cards of yourself hoping for their later use.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 15+

Designer: Eljan Reeden

Artist: Peter Pfeiffer

Price: ca. 5 Euro

Publisher: Haba 2013

Web: www.haba.de

Genre: Card collecting, memo

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice topic, good mechanisms

Enchanting illustrations

First tactics from Target cards and discarded cards

Variants listed

Compares to:

Card collecting games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0