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Insektenhotel

spiders drive off guests

You want to be first to fill all rooms in your insect hotel. If not enough guests are arriving you can try to attract them with honey, but cockroach and spider can interfere in your business. All cards are shuffled and stacked face-down. As an active player you have two options: Spend honey or draw a card. If you spend honey, you name a player and the insect that you want to get from his stock. When he has that insect in stock, you put it into your hotel. In any case, your turn ends and you give one honey drop to the other player and discard one honey drop to the discard pile.

If you draw a card, there are again several options: When an insect that you draw is suitable for the hotel, you place it there and your turn ends. In every floor two identical insects are possible, so you have a maximum of two insects of a kind in your hotel. A honey drop or an unsuitable insect that you draw you keep and can draw another card or stop. If you draw a cockroach you lose all honey and your turn ends instantly. If you draw a spider you must drive off an insect, if possible, from another player’s hotel, but you cannot separate pairs of insects, only drive off single insects. If you are first to fill your hotel completely, you win.

The Lithuanian company is always good for surprises, and Insect Hotel is an especially nice one. The pretty hotel boards fit the topic very nicely, and the simple mechanism is simply fun and is easily understood, and the aggravation elements like cockroach or spider are also very well-suited. And there is even a memory effect for positive interaction, a bit of balance for the spider.

Players: 2-4

Age: 7+

Time: 15+

Designer: Dennis Kirps, Christian Kruchten

Artist: Gediminas Akelaitis

Price: ca. 19 Euro

Publisher: Savas Takas / Logis 2015

Web: www.logis.lt

Genre: Card placement, risk

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en + lt

In-game text: no

Comments:

Mechanism and topic go well together

Pretty, sturdy components

Simple rules, lots of fun

Good, simple family game

Compares to:

Card drawing games with risk

Other editions:

Lithuanian edition, Logis

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0