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Tornado Ellie

Cattle in the clouds

Tornado season in Dairyland – you might encounter flying cows like Ellie and her mates. You own a farm in the tornado belt and the tornados damage your farm piece by piece and you try desperately to have the most valuable farm left in the end.

The tornado is assembled as stated and one card is put as a starting card on the big wooden disk – the eye of the storm – on the Tornado piece. Each player is dealt four cards – there are animals, lightning, clouds and single animals - and also receives four wooden barns, three wooden cows and three wooden trees to represent his farm; take care to provide equidistance between all farms.

You play a card to the bottom end of the Tornado and then turn the tornado with one hand till it points to your neighbor who then plays animal on animal or more animals of another type or a special card with the previous animal. If he cannot play any card, he takes storm damage according to the top card from the draw pile: He takes the indicated pieces from his farm one by one and puts them, separated by a card from the pile, on the Tornado Column on the Eye of the Storm.  Then all refill their hand. When the Tornado Column topples, the player who caused takes storm damage, all others get back one farm piece as Storm insurance, the fallen cards go out of play.

When the stack of cards is finished or someone cannot pay his storm damage correctly, you win with most points from parts remaining in your farm.

Purest fun, lovely aggravating, when the tornado column topples and the neighbor is pleased because he gets back a cow! Well-made mix of a bit of tactic and a bit of luck in the draw and lots of dexterity.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Josep M. Allué

Artist: Marek Bláha

Price: ca. 26 Euro

Publisher: HUCH! & friends 2015

Web: www.hutter-trade.com

Genre: Stacking, dexterity

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very nice idea, very well implemented

Attractive mix of some luck and tactic with lots of dexterity

Well-dosed irritation element

Compares to:

First combination of this kind

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 2