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Men, Mice and Lions

The game features lions, men, foxes, mice and ants – each player receives two of each of those animals in his color, all represented by colored discs. Each animal has a different value and – according to rock-scissors-paper – defeats some of the other characters and is defeated by others:

The lion has a value of 5 points and defeats man, fox and mouse and is defeated by the ant. Man is worth 4 points, he defeats fox and and and is defeated by lion and mouse. The fox represents a value of 3, he defeats mouse and ant and loses against lion and Man. A mouse of value 2 defeats man and ant and is defeated by lion and fox and, finally, the ant is worth 1 point, it defeats the lion and is defeated by Man, fox and mouse.

You play on a board of 19 hexes and in your turn you can either place one of your characters face-down only an empty space on the board or you move one of your characters already there to one of the spots adjacent to its location. If this spot is occupied by another character you pick both of them up – only you can look at them  and check for the winner according to the five-ways rock-scissors-paper mechanism. The winner gets the character of the loser, in case of a tie both characters are given to the defender. A spot you enter cannot contain one of your own characters.

If a player runs out of characters, the game ends regardless of the number of characters left on the board. Each player adds the values of the points on the conquered animals. If you have the highest score you win.

A simple game with an advantage for players with a good memory to remember what they have defeated or what defeated them and thus can guess what might be still in play on the board or what might come.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Duration: 20+

Designer: Yoshigi Ogasawara

Artist: Tatsuo Kakuta, Miki Naitou 

Price: ca. 5 Euro

Publisher: Ogasawara / Japon 2010

Web: japonbrand.gamers-jp.com

Genre: Placement game

Users: For families

Version: jp

Rules: en jp

In-game text: no

Comments:

Available in a normal and a deluxe version * simple rules and well-known mechanism of five-way rock-scissors-paper* interesting for collectors of Far East games

Compares to :

Jungle, all versions of rock-scissors-paper

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance: 0

Tactic: 3

Strategy: 0

Creativity: 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory: 1

Communication: 0

Interaction: 3

Dexterity: 0

Action: 0