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Lumina

Looking for lightning bugs

Lightning bugs dwell on the island of Lumina and hide in any available hide-out; players search for them. The board shows locations and paths between those locations. Location tiles for all those locations are set down face-down, the lightning bugs are shuffled bug side up; then you turn over four of them and place them on the corresponding location; the player markers begin at any location without an illuminated ring.

The active player turns over a location tile - if he can reach this location directly with his marker and the location is empty, he moves there and can continue to turn up location tiles and move to the location until he either reveals an occupied location or one that he cannot reach directly. In this case his turn ends and all open location tiles are turned back over again. If you reach a lightning bug, you take it and set down a new one from stock on its corresponding location; your turn ends. Whoever finds five lightning bugs first, wins the game.

In a version for more experienced players, location tiles are evenly dealt to all players; the active player reveals one of his choice; if he reaches the location, he takes the tile and sets it down open-faced, and can continue. If he cannot reach a location, the location tile stays in its place and all open tiles are turned back over where they are. So, you must memorize where a location tile is currently to be found.

A nice story and pretty components! The mechanism of memorizing location cards in combination with finding and planning optimum paths is very nice; experienced players will have fun with the version featuring changing positions of the location cards.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 15+

Designer: Udo Peise, Marco Teubner

Artist: Kwanchai Moriya

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Haba 2016

Web: www.haba.de

Genre: Memo, collect

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Attractive design,

Somewhat challenging graphics

Nice story

Compares to:

Motion games with memorizing targets

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0