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Biberbau & Co

Building houses with cards

Rabbit, Frog, Beaver and Hamster want to build houses of different height, and all the levels must be different in their houses. Each player has a hamster and three building orders of a color, 50 cards for the levels - ten each for five different kinds of levels - are shuffled and stacked face-down. You turn up the top floor / level card from the stack, lay it out and keep drawing cards until you can fill and order - Frog wants to build a house with two floors, Rabbit wants three floors and Beaver wants four floors. If you have completed an order you can decide to stop or to continue building. If you stop you you set aside the building order and the cards for it for victory points. If you continue to play you keep drawing cards until you either have completed a second order or draw a floor level that you have already on display.

If that happens you must give one card to each player in turn, using cards that you have drawn. If you drew more than there are players, you take the surplus ones out of play. IF you have completed the beaver order, you have, because it is such a difficult order, earned a reward and can do another turn.

Once in the game you may build a house for your hamster, it can have any number of floors from one to five, but of course different ones.

If you have completed all building orders and have built a house of any number of levels for your hamster, the game ends. All players count the cards they collected and you win with most collected cards, the hamster does not count.

Biberbau & Co offers a very nice variant of the "stop and secure your result or continue at risk", not new, but good.

Players: 2-4

Age: 4+

Time: 10+

Designer: Michael Schacht

Artist: Stefanie Reich

Price: ca. 7 Euro

Publisher: Haba 2013

Web: www.haba.de

Genre: Card collecting

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nicely varied standard mechanism

Pretty drawings

First tries for tactic in use of hamster and continuing to play

Compares to:

All card games with risk+play on or stop+secure mechanism

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0