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Colorio

5 times orange – you have lost

 

All dents in the 5x5 grid on the board are covered with a cap.  The colored strips are turned over and arranged in a way that all triangles at the end of each strip show the same color; then the strips are shuffled and randomly and covertly inserted into the board – now each dent has a randomly assigned color. In a turn you remove three caps one by one and decide for each cap after removing it if you want to take it out of play or use to cover up another dent. If you cover another dent it must have another color than the dent where you took to cap off. One cap in your turn must be taken out of play and the first cap you remove in your turn must be different from the one that was placed last in the previous player’s turn. If you take off a cap and thereby reveal the 5th dent of a color you must quit the game immediately and the cap is taken out of play. The others keep playing and can again cover a dent of a color that is visible 5 times. Every time when one color is visible five times the player who revealed the 5th dent of this color must quit the game. If you are last in play, you win.

If you want to play several rounds, say one round per player, you play for points – the one that must quit first scores 0, the second one that quits scores 1 point, and so on – after the agreed round of games you win with the most points.

Colorio offers a game with simple rules, elegant and very attractive components and a lot more interesting game play than you would suspect at first glance. The game is a challenge for your memory and planning abilities and works exceedingly well for two players.

 

Players: 2-5

Age: 8+

Time: 15+

Designer: Jacky Bonnet

Artist: Mindtwister

Price: ca. 21 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2012

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Memo game

Users: For families

Special: 2 players

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

 

Comments:

Variable board

Abstract game

Good mixture of memory and planning

 

Compares to:

Memory games on positions

 

Other editions:

Currently none

 

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0