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Schlacht am Buffet

USE YOUR ELBOWS TO GET CHEESE

The buffet offers yummy dishes and the mice jostle to get the best tidbits.

At the start of a round a number of dishes equal to the number of players minus one is laid out on the board, sorted by values. Players start with 9 mice cards. All players lay out a card face down. The starting player turns up his card first and moves his mouse, the others follow in turn. If you then are in last place in the line with your mouse, you take the dish with the lowest value and drop out of the round. If you were starting player, you give the marker to your left neighbor still in the game. If you are the first to drop out of a round you can immediately discard any number of your hand cards and draw new ones. The others play another card. When two or more mice are in last place together nothing happens and all play a new card. For each kind of dish you can display only one, if you get a new one the older one is covered with the new one. When there are only two mice in line at the buffet, the first in line gets the best dish, the other mouse goes away empty-handed.

For the next round new dishes are laid out on the buffet and all players replenish their hand to 9 cards from the pile. When there are not enough dishes for anew round, the player with the highest total from his dishes wins.

This is a very attractive family game from Martin Wallace, which yet demands a little tactics and clever use of your cards – it’s better to take a bad dish at the beginning and later cover it with a better one and use the opportunity to get rid of a few bad cards in hand. Pretty illustrations and cute mice pieces add to the attraction!

Spieler         : 3-6

Alter            : ages 8+

Dauer           : ca. 30 min

Autor           : Martin Wallace

Grafik          : Uli Stein, Imelda Vohwinkel

Titel            : ident

Preis            : ca. 25 Euro

Verlag          : Kosmos 2011

                     www.kosmos.de

Genre                    : A movement and acquisition game with cards

Zielgruppe             : For families

Language                        : de

Rules                              : de

In-game use of language   : no

Kommentar:

Illustrations by Uli Stein

Very attractive components

Nice topic

Well-working mechanisms

Vergleichbar:

All games moving pieces with cards for utilizing the order of the pieces

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