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Bears & Bees

swarms and honey

As a bear, you research honey and want to collect swarms of bees. The decks for honey cards and research cards are stacked on their respective sides of the reference card; you have a swarm card and take cards according to it from the honey deck or research deck, at your discretion, and also take honey tokens.

All players play a face-down card and then reveal their cards simultaneously; then cards are resolved in the order of honey cards, research cards and swarm cards: If you played a honey card, you take the indicated honey tokens. Some cards give hone tokens, when your left or right neighbor played a certain card type or when your previously played card corresponds to the symbol on the current card; other cards give honey tokens to your neighbors. If you end up with more than eight honey markers, you discard all of them and take an experience token.

Research cards are resolved in ascending order of their numbers - you draw research cards as stated and additional cards for each condition on it that you meet; limit to cards in hand are nine cards; cards played by your neighbors can give you additional cards.

Swarm cards are resolved in order of their number; if you have the highest number of honey tokens and experience tokens, you discard your honey tokens and receive a swarm token. If you take the 5^th swarm token, you win. If a card deck runs out before that, you win at the end of the round with most swarm tokens.

A pretty and nice family game; bears researching honey - there are Winnie, Yogi, Balou and others - are a cute topic; mechanisms are standard, but well mixed; the rules are simple and the design is very attractive.

Players: 2-5

Age: 7+

Time: 30+

Designer: Yuri Yamschikov, Anastasia Skachkova, Viktor Skachkov

Artist: Marina Kunakasova, Sergey Dulin

Price: ca. 20 Euro                                                                                                                      9  

Publisher: Hobby World 2018

Web: www.hobbyworld.ru

Genre: Cards, player interactions

Users: For families

Version: ru

Rules: en ru

In-game text: no

Comments:

Pretty design

Cute topic

Nice mix of mechanisms

Compares to:

7 Wonders for relations to neighboring players

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0