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Karuba das Kartenspiel

Paths to temples

As a leader of an expedition you construct paths to temples and treasures for your adventurers. You use 16 cards, numbered from 1 to 16, showing adventurers, temples, paths and treasures. A card summary board depicting all available cards is laid out. You shuffle and stack your set of cards face down and draw three cards in hand.

For a round, you select two cards from your hand face-down, reveal them and sum their value. If you have the lowest total, you discard one of those two cards. Then, you lay out the selected card(s) in your personal treasure island. You must place them within a 4x4 grid; new cards must be placed adjacent to at least one card already in place and must be placed in the same orientation, number upright! Paths can have dead ends. After placing the card(s), you refill your hand to three cards. After eight such rounds you score your treasure island: If there is an uninterrupted path - the shortest possible one and no tile can be entered twice - from an adventurer to the temple of the same color, you score three points. When this path contains crystals or gold nuggets, you score one point for a crystal and two points for a gold nugget. Adventurer without an uninterrupted path to their temple do not score! An adventurer in a path of another adventurer interrupts this path and renders it worthless, but adventurers can share a path and the treasures on it, too. If you achieve the highest score, you win

Karuba the Card Game means Karuba light; drawing your cards introduces an element of change and the penalty for the lowest total introduces some tactics, the summary board helps in planning.

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 15+

Designer: Rüdiger Dorn

Artist: Claus Stephan

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: Haba 2017

Web: www.haba.de

Genre: Paths, connections

Users: For children

Users: For families

Users: With friends

Users: For experts

Special: 1 player

Special: 2 players

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de en + es fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simplified version of Karuba

Elements of change, little tactic

Card summary board helps in planning

Compares to:

Karuba

Other editions:

Haba (en fr nl)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0