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CONNECT 4

Die Tower-Attacke

Turn old into new and not only new, but international - for many years we have known and played 4 Gewinnt, and now we meet a version of the game under the name of Connect 4 Die Tower-Attacke, which in the Nuremberg release information was yet announced under the name of 4 Gewinnt Tower.

Be that as it may, the playing chips are familiar, in this edition they are red and yellow and the playing device is black; we set up the tower from 8 parts and then are faced with a funnel on top of a vertical base having room for seven discs.

Those discs are not as in other versions placed into the slots alternately by the players; this would just result in a red-yellow-red-etc. pattern here. No, in this version, each player has a catapult, called launcher, and uses it to snip his discs into the funnel; the launcher can be anywhere in a player’s own half of the table.

If you are first to get four of your discs into the tower you win the round. The discs are released from the tower by opening the sliding device and a new round is played. You win the game if you win three rounds or if manage to form an uninterrupted sequence of four of your discs in the tower.

As the game comprises five red and 6 yellow discs it seems prudent to set one yellow chip aside in order to provide each player with the same number of chips.

If this is still a version of a classic game or if that is already a new concept, well be that as it may. It is fun regardless of what it is and if you want to make it even more difficult you can remove the top, wider part of the funnel and can then prove that you can take proper aim!

Players: 2

Age: 6+

Time: 10+

Designer: not named

Art: not named

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Hasbro 2012

Web: www.hasbro.de

Genre: Dexterity game

Users: For families

Special: 2 players

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

New name, new mechanism

Changed aim of the game

Dexterity instead of tactics

Compares to:

Other games with a mechanical snipping device

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3