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Kerala

Path of the Elephants

Elephant Festival in Kerala – you want to be the one that creates the most beautiful festival site! The game features starting tiles and two elephant figures in player colors and – depending on the number of players – different numbers of tiles in those colors, each featuring 0 to 3 elephant symbols or a circle segment of another color or an action symbol.

You begin with two standing elephants on the starting tile. In a round you draw tiles equal to the number of players. You choose a tile and place it in your display, next to or on top of another tile and adjacent to one of your elephants, which then is moved to the new tile. If you do not want to place a tile, you can pass, twice in the game and indicate this by laying down an elephant, the surplus tile is taken out of play. You try to have only one area in each color and to have one area of each color, you are allowed to have two areas of your own color. Action symbols can be used to relocate a tile in your display, this cannot result in splitting the display, or you can relocate an elephant to any other tile.

When all tiles have been placed, you score penalty points for tiles in surplus areas and for missing colors and points for elephant symbols on the tiles as well as bonuses for correlating circle segments and elephants that are still standing upright.

Kerala is an elegant game both in design and mechanism, with elements of chance and yet offering tactical opportunities, and challenging till the last tile - “Oh, good, the grey tile with the purple segment is still there, I can place it next to purple and thus score five bonus point and have acquired my last missing color!”

Players: 2-5

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Kirsten Hiese

Artist: Antje und Claus Stephan

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2016

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Tile placement, area formation

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Beautiful, elegant components

Extremely well-working mix of tactic and luck

Simple rules

Very good family game

Compares to:

All placement games with area forming

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0