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Blocky Mountains

CLimber and bear on the way up!

The path up to the blocky mountain peak must be built and climbed in stages by climber and bear. Route cards show constructions using the blocks in the game. In a Basic Course you get acquainted with the core mechanisms: Treetop - Bear and Climber hang on the eyelet of rods and are moved, placed at the target and unclipped. Narrow Pass  - The climbing rope is fixed to a rod and the bear is slid along the blocks to the finish. Crevice - Climber and provisions are moved to the finish, the climber is moved with the rod and pushes the provision disc along. Boulder - analogous to Crevice, but using rod plus climbing rope. Fixed Ladder - Pawns are moved in fixed order vertically along intermediate stops. Archway - provisions must be pushed through a rock gateway.

In the cooperative game, you turn over a route card according to the selected level of difficulty and the pawn position on the mountain path. The route is constructed - you may include eventual upgrades - and you move climber, bear and maybe provisions. If you succeed you move the marker forward as stated on the route card. Mastered additional tasks earn you squirrels. If you fail, you can try again if you discard a squirrel. The next player can use the same route or change it by discarding squirrels. If the marker reaches the peak before you run out of cards, all win together. In the competitive version you win, if your pawn reaches the peak first.

A fun and challenging dexterity game, using very attractive components and a very nicely implemented topic - to swing the climber to push the provisions through the gateway is simply fun, likewise for children and adults.

Players: 1-4

Age: 5+

Time: 30+

Designer: Gerhard Junker

Artist: Fabia Zobel, Andrea Hofbeck, Gerhard Junker

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Noris Spiele 2018

Web: www.noris-spiele.de

Genre: Construction, dexterity

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Revised new edition

Good rules

Nice mechanism mix

Lots of fun to play!

Compares to:

All construction games with pawn ascension

Other editions:

Currently none, Juhu Spiele 2013/14

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 1

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3