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Ubongo 3-D Family

Puzzling fun on two levels

Ubongo 3D Family expands the placement / area filling game by one dimension. Each player has a set of eight building blocks in four colors. The game offers for color-coded levels of difficulty; level I uses three blocks, level II to IV use four blocks each for every puzzle. You select your personal level of difficulty or all agree on a level for all players; then you draw a corresponding placement card and a dice roll determines the number of the puzzle on the card. All players take the blocks depicted on the card for this puzzle and fill the area on his card as quickly as he can in a way that forms a two-level closed construct in the shape of the given area; no case can b empty and nothing can exceed the area and there can be no gaps in the construct.

If you are first to complete the puzzle and call Ubongo, you receive a sapphire gem and a gem from the bag; the second player takes an amber gem and a gem from the bag. If other players are done within the runtime of the timer, they take a gem from the bag. If nobody completes the puzzle within the runtime, you timer is turned over for the Second-Chance-Round; if you finish in this round, you only get gems from the bag. After nine rounds you add up the value of your gems and win with the highest total. In the solitaire version you complete as many puzzles as you can in a give time frame.

After ten years, this re-issue of the game is as attractive as it was then, maybe it is a tad more challenging than the core game of Ubongo, but the variable levels of difficulty allow all players to participate in this highly recommended puzzle about spatial thinking and area filling.

Players: 1-4

Age: 8+

Time: 25+

Designer: Grzegorz Rejchtman

Artist: Bernd Wagenfeld, Nicolas Neubauer, Homes Karl

Price: ca. 35 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos Verlag 2019

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Area filling

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition, first edition 2009

Four levels of difficulty

Includes a solo version

Compares to:

All editions of Ubongo

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 0