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VANUATU

THE RISING WATERS

Sandy beaches, coconut trees, fish, wrecked ships and tourists – if you want to earn money you can catch fish, salvage antiquities from wrecks or look after tourists. In turn all players complete the phases of a round – Preparation, Selection of a person, Choice of actions from nine possible ones by placing five action markers and implementation of one action per round and cashing in of rest tiles. Ten units of money are automatically changed into five prosperity points. After eight rounds and a final scoring you win with most prosperity points.

In the expansion Vanuatu The Rising Water Vanuatu is threatened by Global Warming and the islands are in danger of being flooded. Players must cooperate in order to protect the islands by setting up dikes.

In rounds 2, 4, 6 and 8 the water rises. The starting player of the round rolls the die and thus determines the number of actions for players before the water rises. If you choose the action Building, you can build a house and/or a dike, when your boat is next to the island. The costs are 3 vatus for a house and 1 vatu for a dike. A dike can be built without owning a house on the island. After implementation of all actions each side of an island that is not protected by a dike is marked with a water marker. When the fifth marker is placed the island is flooded and is taken out of the game.

When three islands have been flooded the game ends and all players have lost together; otherwise water markers on islands with houses lose their owners points.

Rising Waters provides an attractive expansion with well-implemented flair and the dilemma of cooperation vs. personal interests.

Players: 3-5

Age: 12+

Time: 90+

Designer: Alain Epron

Artist: Cédrick le Bihan

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Krok Nik Douil 2012

Web: www.kroknikdouuil.fr

Genre: Resources management

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: en fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

First expansion for Vanuatu

Needs Vanuatu to play

Adds cooperative element and also a dilemma of personal interest vs. end of game due to lack of cooperation

Compares to:

Vanuatu and other resources management games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 2

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0