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Lagerstätten

Layers of fossils

You are a paleontologist and work to discover and dig up fossils. To acquire the necessary monies for research, you present your finds and results at conference, sell them to collectors or exhibit them in museums.

From round 2 on, at the start of each round, you replenish Fossil cards and Request cards in Phase 1, Refill, according to the set-up of the game. Then, in turn, in Phase 2 Placing Assistants, players place their four assistants into action cases, always only on free cases and, if necessary, to the furthest left or furthest top left of the respective action case area, and also several assistants of a player on an action, if cases are available for this. Action 0, Geological Survey, is resolved immediately when an assistant is played. Placing assistance is followed by Phase 3, Action Resolution - all resolve the selected actions in sequence 1 to 6 - Planning, Excavation, Academic Conference, Fossil Restoration, Collector Requests and Museum Exhibition. The next phase is Phase 4 Research Funding - you resolve Request cards by discarding the card and the fossil depicted on the card, represented by fossil cards for the complete fossil - and receive monies in relation to the completed card and the current round. If you hold Exhibit cards, you receive research monies in relation to the number of Exhibit cards you own. After eight rounds, you win with most research monies.

A rare and interesting topic was implemented here very harmonious and consequently, the chance element in the face-down replenishing is mitigated by the mechanism of Geological Survey. Five players are the optimum and a good memory is an advantage.

Players: 3-5

Age: 12+

Time: 120+

Designer: Masaki Suga

Artist: Saori Shibata

Price: ca. 29 Euro

Publisher: analog lunchbox / Japon Brand 2017

Web: www.japonbrand.com

Genre: Worker placement

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de en fr jp

In-game text: no

Comments:

Interesting topic, very well implemented

Rather big memo component

Also, quite a bit of chance

Best with five players

Compares to:

Worker placement games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0