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Roll dice and calculate!

48 tiles show numbers and can be won with mathematical calculations. The tiles are color-coded for four different levels of difficulty. The game board shows ten areas and each area shows a color for the level of difficulty; you place any corresponding tile on it; the rest of the tiles is sorted by color and set aside for the following rounds.

At the start of the round any of the players rolls three dice - one eight-sided, one ten-sided and one twelve-sided die, showing numbers 1-8, 1-10 and 1-12, respectively; the results of the roll are the numbers that are used in this round. Now each of the players for himself uses at least two of the numbers and combines them with the use of the four basic arithmetical operations to achieve a result that corresponds to one of the numbers on the board. If you have reached a result you take the tile off the board; the first one to do so turns over the sand-timer. When the timer has run down, each player shows his solution and all check if it is correct. If yes, then you put the tile down showing the number side; if not, you turn the tile you took over and put it down, too. Then you fill the gaps on the board with tiles according to the color. If you cannot fill all areas on the board the game ends and each scarab depicted on the back of a tile showing its number side is worth one point, and each scarab on the face-down tiles represents one penalty point. You win with the best total result. If you play the expert version, you can take more than one tile in a round.

A nice, quick and simple game, the zest is to be quick enough to achieve the "difficult" results for more scarabs.

Players: 2-5

Age: 9+

Time: 20+

Designer: James Lim

Artist: Junho Na

Price: ca. 18 Euro

Publisher: Korea Board Games 2012

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: Calculation game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: en kr + de pl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simple mechanisms

Quickly explained and quickly played

Nice family game

Compares to:

All calculation games for finding given results

Other editions:

Amigo Spiele 2013; G3, Poland, 2013

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 1

Action (dark green): 0