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Fabulantica

TravelS On Camel and donkey

As adventurers we travel in fairy tale Fabulantica, meet its residents and complete tasks by finding lost residents. Twelve fairy tale characters are put on the board, covered with yellow towers and shuffled well. Task cards show a task giver in the bottom left-hand corner and a lost person in the top right-hand corner. Three such task cards are always on display.

Players travel on horseback across forest and meadow, on donkeys in the mountains, on camels in the desert, on ships over water and with the flying carpet in any landscape. You hold five travel cards in hand for those means of transport, dealt from the draw pile.

The active player plays a suitable card for each landscape that he wants to cross to reach one of the towers and to find one of the task givers depicted on the open task cards. If you reach a tower, you reveal the character underneath for all to see, and take the corresponding task card if you found a task giver, and then replenish the task card display. You can have maximum two tasks at any given time; you then search for the lost persons depicted on your task or tasks. If you find one, you turn over your task card to the coin side, and then the person and its tower, switching it with another tower. You also relocate person + tower if you uncover a wrong character. Finally, you draw two travel cards. If you are first to complete three tasks, you win.

Elfenland and Sagaland come to mind instantly – Fabulantica is a clever mix of those two classic games, with nice components. The mechanisms work perfectly, demanding planning and memory, and also provide a first-class family game.

Players: 2-5

Age: 7+

Time: 25+

Designer: Marco Teubner

Artist: Gediminas Akelaitis

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Savas Takas / Logis 2017

Web: www.logis.lt

Genre: Travel, memo, search

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice mix of familiar mechanisms

Pretty components

A very good family game, too

Compares to:

Elfenland, Sagaland

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0