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Turbo Kratz die Kurve!

The Race game

Turbo is a snail that miraculously acquires super powers, that is, the power to be super-fast. Today Turbo and his friends run a private race.

The race track is assembled, each player takes a racing snail and a turbo coin. If it is your turn you roll the die and move your snail forward. If the die shows no pips, you have a problem and must stay in place. When your turn ends on a special "Nitro" spot, you get an extra boost and may roll again. But should your move end on a special spot "oil" your snail slips and must pass the next turn. Should you have to end your move on a spot that is occupied by another snail, you overtake it and move to the next free spot.

The move of your snail could also end on a green or orange betting spot: If you end on green and do not have a coin or do not want to bet, you just stop. But if you have a coin you can bet on your own victory in this round and win 2 extra coins. To bet you place a coin on the green spot next to the trophy and add two coins from stock and also take the betting tile, green side up. On Orange you can win one coin, you put one of your own and one from stock onto the orange spot next to the trophy. Should someone already have bet on green, nobody else can bet in this round. If you reach the finish you win the round and take the coin. Bets are paid out when won. If someone has eight or more coins he wins the race!

Small, neat, featuring a license topic and also a bit of tactic from the betting - what more can one ask from a children's' game. Of course luck is the dominating factor, but this is what provides the race ambience.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 15+

Designer: Manfred Ludwig

Artist: Katja Witt, scnnuppenalarm

Price: ca. 7 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2013

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Car racing, license

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

License topic

Very nice mechanisms

Bets allow a bit of tactic

Components and rules provide race ambience

Compares to:

All car race games using dice

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0