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Pipeline Duell

Race for the Line

Pipeline Duell provides a challenging and enthralling game on building a pipeline that must run from the bottom to the top of the grid. At the same time you must place the pieces so that your opponent is blocked from reaching the top. The game board is vertical and made up from seven rods of identical length. The playing pieces feature parts of the pipeline on both sides; sometimes the same parts, sometimes different parts. There are straight parts, crossings, T-pieces, angles and blockers.

In your turn you draw a tile from the bag and look closely at both sides but so that your opponent cannot see the tile. Then you insert the tile between two of the rods. You should continue your own pipeline and you should strive to construct several branches of your pipeline leading upwards so that you have an alternative in case your opponent blocks you. These blockades are beastly, because you must bypass them. If you are the first to finish your pipeline you win the game. If both manage to do so at the same time you win with the shorter connection, made up from fewer tiles. The winner can also be the player who can successfully block the other player in a way that the opponent cannot continue his pipeline.

With this version of a well-known principle Noris provides an interesting alternative: You can try to remember what you have placed for your opponent but depend largely on the luck of the draw for your own plans. In any case, this game is a nice fun game for the whole family in a very practical and attractive variant – the base for the grid is used to store the tiles and rods between games.

Spieler         : 2

Alter            : ages 8 and up

Dauer           : ca. 20 min

Autor           : Daniel Meyer

Grafik          : not cited

Titel             : ident

Preis            : ca. 25,00 Euro

Verlag          : Noris 2010

                     www.noris-spiele.de

Genre                    : placement game

Zielgruppe             : For families

Mechanismen         : Continue your own line, block off the opposing one

Kommentar:

Well-known mechanism

Very nice variant

Attractive and practical components

Minimalistic rules

Vergleichbar:

Pipeline, Piatnik, and other games where you form a continues line

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