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Life is Life

Swim for your life ….

You swim for your life, because if you are out of lives you are out of the game!

There are 60 animal cards of different values, the number of cards for an animal is equal to its value. You have five lives, represented by cards, and ten animal cards on hand, ten more cards are laid out in four rows of 1-2-3-4 cards.

The active player swaps cards or knocks, but you need to have swapped cards at least once before you are allowed to knock. If you swap you take a row from the display and replace it with the same number of cards from your hand; the cards you took and the cards you place must differ by at least one card.

When you knock, all other players have one more turn and then your hand is scored for majorities in animals. If you have the sole majority in a type of animal you score the animal value for points. In case of a tie nobody scores this animal. When all majorities have been determined, all players add their points: If you have most points, you do not lose a life; if you have fewest points, you lose two lives and all others lose one life.

Instead of being triggered by knocking, the end of the round can happen by Sudden Death – if you swap and then hold four cats, five rabbits or five pigs, you win the round instantly without any scoring; all other players lose one life. If you have no life left, you are out of the game; the last one in play wins.

In an advanced version you can achieve sudden death only with five rabbits or five pigs and receive one life, all other players lose one life.

A quick game, a nice game, lives are gone fast, and five rabbits are harder to acquire than nine giraffes. Cute filler entertainment.

Players: 3-5ige: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Lorenz Kutschke

Artist: Oliver Freudenreich

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: nsv 2016

Web: www.nsv.de

Genre: cards, set collection

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice topic

Enchanting illustrations

Easy-to-learn rules

Compares to:

All set collecting games for majorities

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0