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Adiós Calavera!

Living vs. dead

Dios de los Muertos, Day of sumptuous parties for the dead - in this game the occasion for a wager between the Living and the Dead - whoever manages it back to their own realm holds sway over the others until the next Day of the Dead.

One has eight discs of one’s faction, with a flower side for the normal ability and a character side for the special ability. You select four of your eight discs for their normal ability and four for their special one and put them on the starting slots. Normal ability is the same for all discs: A disc has as many movement points as there are other pieces - your own and opposing ones - in the same row at 90 degrees to the main direction of movement, including the disc you want to move. The discs move orthogonally and can do 90° turns. Candle slots cannot be entered or crossed, cloth slots can be crossed. Special abilities are: No opposing disc can sit next to Pedro/Pablo, Jésus/José moves other discs; Evita/Erendia can move diagonally; Xenia/Ximena moves +1 or +2 steps; Fernando/Fidel pushes discs forward; Diego/deMarco pulls other discs toward him; Marlina/Maria-Elena can move over other discs and Carmen/Cariba switches position places with an adjacent disc.

Use of special abilities is voluntary and can be combined with a normal turn; Evita/Erendia can move orthogonally and diagonally within one turn. Whoever has his pieces across the board and out on the opposite side of the board first, wins.

A very interesting placement game, abstract despite the topic, elegant and challenging; the most important decision - selection of special abilities - is done at the beginning!

Players: 2

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Martin Schlegel

Art: Christian Opperer

Price: ca. 26 Euro

Publisher: Mücke Spiele 2017

Web: www.muecke-spiele.de

Genre: Placement

Users: With friends

Special: 2 players

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Topic, yet abstract

Topic nicely implemented

Simple movement rules

Compares to:

Abstract games for 2, moving pieces off board

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 3

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0