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Power Tower

BUilding on order

Building towers, that is, building one tower together is the aim of this game! Who manages to place the roof or to use the last block? The building is directed by cards. At the start of the game you lay the base, the triangular basic block is placed on the square base tableau, and the building cards are stacked face-down. The game features three kinds of blocks – a disc, a cube and a rectangular block, and of course, as already mentioned one roof.

In your turn you reveal the top building card – this card tells you whom block you must add to the tower using which hand. For the rectangular block the card also shows the way it must be added. When the card is marked with a symbol for two hands you can choose which hand you want to use. There are also cards in the stack which allow you free choice among the blocks or change direction of play or give you the order to place the roof. If you manage to place the roof or to add the last block to the tower without making the tower topple over, receives a chip. When the tower tumbles, the round ends, too. In any case the next round is started with the base and the freshly shuffled stack of cards. If you have collected three chips you win the builder’s competition.

Power Tower offers nice standard variant of the well-known tower-construction mechanisms. As you only score if you can place the last block or the roof, you do not want to build too nastily, unless you want to hinder your neighbor in successfully placing the roof. If you only play to let the tower tumble you will only achieve a longer time to play.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Klaus Miltenberger

Artist: not stated

Price: ca. 14 Euro

Publisher: Noris Spiele 2011

Web: www.noris-spiele.de

Genre: Stacking / Building game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Well-known mechanism – trains hand-eye coordination * building carefully is more rewarding than going for crashing towers

Compares to:

All kinds of stacking and building games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3  

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