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Aramini Circus

assemble the animal train

The Circus is moving out of town and you want to load the animals quickly, that is, discard them for wagons for your train.

There are 40 Wagon cards in four colors - values 4x1, 3x2, 2x3 and 1x4 for each color - plus 48 Animal cards - Giraffe, Bear, Fish and Tiger; also, Locomotive cards, Exchange Tokens and a Ringmaster token.

You begin with one Locomotive card, an Exchange marker and five Animal cards; four Wagon cards and one animal card are turned over.

In your turn, you have two actions out of three options: 1. Draw an Animal card from the draw pile or the discard pile. 2. Load animals into an available wagon, that is, discard the animals depicted on a wagon card and take this card. 3. Swap an exchange token with another player. Exchange tokens are jokers - two animals of the kind depicted on a joker replace any other animal. If you hold the Ringmaster, you have an additional action and then hand the token to your neighbor. A wagon card that you acquired can be added to your train - when value or color correspond to the previous card in the train - or be placed in your Pending area, until you can add it to your train together with a newly taken wagon card. The first card next to the locomotive can be any wagon card. Whoever is first to accumulate 16 or 18 points in his train, depending on the number of players, wins the game. In a variant, you use bonus cards; you play them as an additional action in your turn and resolve the bonus action.

A nicely made, polished family game, quick and easy to play, with exactly the right mix of chance and taking a decision on where you draw from and when you discard animals for a wagon.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Steven Aramini

Artist: Mathieu Leyssenne

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: Iello 2015

Web: www.iellogames.com

Genre: Card collecting

Users: For families

Version: en

Rules: en fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Series Mini Games

New edition of YardMaster

Nice family topic

Simple mechanism

Very good filler game

Compares to:

YardMaster

Other editions:

YardMaster, Crash Games (en); Iello (fr)

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0