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Matobo

Stock or build?

You want to build as many columns as possible and build them as high as you can. 39 pieces in five shapes are distributed on the board at the start of the game, identical shapes should not be adjacent.

For a starting move you place your pawn on a piece of your choice. Then, in each turn, you move your pawn, always across hex edges only. You have three choices for your move: 1) you move your pawn onto an immediately adjacent piece. Then you can either pick up the piece you just vacated and put it into your personal stock or - should you already have some pieces of the same shape - you can take all those pieces from your stock and stack them on the piece you just vacated and claim the column with a marker of your color. This stacking option can only be chosen if the column thereby created is at least equal in height to any other column of the same shape already on the board. A column that was claimed cannot be extended. 2) You jump over any number of empty hexes onto a piece and have then again the choice to collect the vacated piece or build a column on it. 3) You jump in a straight line onto an empty hex and can jump over any number of your own columns. You can never end a move on a column and cannot jump over columns or pawns of others. When all pieces are taken you score the columns, "number of pieces x 2 minus 1 point", that is e.g., 9 points for a column of five pieces, as well as majorities in kinds of remaining pieces and win with the highest total.

Beautiful, elegant, classy and good - a lovely extension for the genre of abstract placement and collecting games, featuring sophisticated details.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Christwart Conrad

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 58 Euro

Publisher: Intellego Holzspiele 2013

Web: www.intellego-holzspiele.de

Genre: Abstract placement

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Elegant and sophisticated as all Intellego Games

Challenging game but simple rules

Four play in two teams, two and three play head-to-head

Compares to:

Mixtour, other games on collecting pieces for column-building

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0