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Okavango
As a ranger, you want to take herds of parched animals to the river delta or to watering holes. The game features 8x11 animals and 6 ranger tiles for jokers; boards for waterholes, river deltas and the river itself are laid out and equipped with animal tiles as stated. Then you draw 13 tiles to place behind your screen.
The active player can pass his turn or play: To play, you prepare your turn by placing several identical or several all different animals in front of your screen. Then, in Phase 1: Allowing animals to drink you take all animals from a water hole or a river delta behind your screen and replace them with the animals you prepared: ON a waterhole you need the same number of animals of a higher rank than those you took or more all different animals, regardless of rank. On a river delta you can only place more, all different animals. In Phase 2: Winning Points, you score the value of waterhole or river delta, if all white cases on the board are full. In Phase 3: Take animals from the Okavango to your reserve, you either take all animals of a kind from the river or one ranger: If you did place animals at a waterhole, you can take the same number of animals of lower rank from the river, or fewer animals regardless of their rank; if you placed animals at a river delta, you can only take fewer animals from the Okavango as you brought to the delta. The Okavanga is replenished from stock. When all white cases of all watering places are filled, you win with most points.
A nice family game with a good topic, with a well-working balance of chance and planning; remembering animals taken by other players can help.
Players: 2-4
Age: 10+
Time: 45+
Designer: Wolfgang Kramer, Michael Kiesling
Art: Paco Corachan Iriarte
Price: ca. 37 Euro
Publisher: Jumbo Diset 2018
Web: www.jumbo.eu
Genre: collect and place tiles
Users: For families
Version: multi
Rules: de en fr nl
In-game text: no
Comments:
Attractive topic
Very nice design
Easy rules
Compares to:
Games about placing sets for points
Other editions:
Currently none
Chance (pink): 2
Tactic (turquoise): 3
Strategy (blue): 1
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 0
Memory (orange): 1
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 3
Dexterity (green): 0
Action (dark green): 0