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Turmbauer von Babylon

bridges, towers and noblemen

Building in Babylon, with towers, bridges and nobles. In the tactical game, all players together construct one connected building and score for majorities of nobles on levels.

In a turn, you place any 4 or 5 pieces in any order; bridges not directly on top of each other, towers and bridges are placed on bridges in the middle or directly at the end. Nobles can only be placed on towers; one big or two small ones of varying color per tower. If you can do a turn, you must do it; if you cannot to a turn, or if you have used up all your nobles, the game is scores: For each level, on which you have the sole majority of nobles, you score the level height; each bridge you did not place, scores one penalty point.

In the fast game, each player builds a building together with his left and his right neighbor; as in the tactical variant, you have a given number of towers and bridges and all your nobles. You try to place your nobles as high as you can. In this version, building pieces that fall off are set aside and score penalty points at the end; if you cause an opposing noble to fall, you are out of the round. If someone has places all his nobles or cannot do a turn, you score the level height for each noble alone on a tower with no other big one in the building and with at a noble of another color in the building. The smaller total of a player is his scoring total for the round; the highest of those totals wins the round. More variants are listed.

A highly tactical, strategic and abstract game, and a hectic one in the fast version - a thrilling, challenging building that is also good for families with a bit of gaming practice.

Players: 3-5

Age: 10+

Time: 30+

Designer: Channing Jones

Artist: Christian Opperer

Price: ca. 19 Euro

Publisher: Mücke Spiele 2017

Web: www.mucke-spiele.de

Genre: Place, build, majorities

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Abstract strategic/tactical game

Pieces not 100% stable

Many variants

Also, good family game

Compares to:

Torres and other games about positions on levels

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): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 1

Action (dark green): 0