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Yakari

Das Kartenspiel

All members of the tribe are looking for Yakari and his friends, players help them. You discard cards and check for correlations, the more correlations you can achieve between the card from the tribe deck and your own card the more points you score; if you collect most points you have been the best helper and win.

The game comprises cards for the Sioux tribe and one set of cards for each of the players. You have your cards for a draw pile and draw two cards. One player is named Elder of the tribe and turns up one card from the tribe deck in each round. If it is a “friends” card showing 1, 2 or 3 characters on one of three possible backgrounds, you secretly choose a card from your hand and place it face-down, then all cards are revealed and compared to the tribe card as regards to identical characters or identical background or number of characters. For each correlation you score one point and then replenish your hand from the draw-pile to two cards. Should you have played the identical card to that from the tribe desk you score additional points. When a special cards appears, you score double in case of the raccoons, the feather chases away friends, the suns gives you back a card and the shield fends off bad cards; the functions vary a bit depending on whether the card was played by a player or was turned up from the tribe deck.

As the decks of players and the tribe deck are identical, you can use a bit of tactics with a bit of card memory and if your cards in hand allow it; especially when using the special cards; this nicely balances the rather large element of luck from drawing cards.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 15+

Designer: Marco Pederzoli

Artist: Team Huch & friends

Price: ca. 9 Euro

Publisher: Huch & friends 2011

Web: www.huchandfriends.de

Genre: Card game

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Pretty design

Allows first tactical considerations as regards to the use of special cards

Good memory for cards is helpful

Compares to:

All card placement game with card comparison

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0