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Tembo

Gnus überqueren den Mara

Gnus, zebras and antelopes, 42 animals altogether, need the help of elephants to cross the Mara River, protecting them against lions and crocodiles lying in wait at the crossings.

Each of the ungulate cards shows the victory points which it gives a player after a successful river crossing; the corner of the card shows a number between 1 and 42. In addition to the ungulates there are seven elephants, three lions, six crocodiles and a super-crocodile. All cards are shuffled, each player is dealt five cards and takes 10 marker cubes of a color. If you got a lion, you return it and draw another card. Then the remaining cards are shuffled and five are displayed, face-down, as river crossings.

The active player plays an ungulate, an elephant or a crocodile and then draws a card; an ungulate is played openly next to a crossing and marked with a cube; the number of the second and any additional ungulate at a crossing must be higher than the previous one.  An elephant takes all animals at a crossing (minimum three) to the other side; you take your marked animals for victory points; a crocodile eats the first animal at the crossing or all animals of the type depicted on the crocodile card; the super-crocodile eats all animals at the crossing. If you draw a lion you play it immediately, it eats all animals at the crossing and then blocks the crossing. When no-one can play a card, you score animals you did collect.

Tembo is a very nice little card game for families or beginners, with amazing illustrations and is based on a real yearly event in Africa. Perfect family entertainment with simple rules!

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer:

Artist: Oliver and Sandra Freudenreich

Price: ca. 9 Euro

Publisher: nsv 2017

Web: www.nsv.de

Genre: Cards, collecting

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very attractive design

Simple rules

Easily accessible

Good as a filler or for beginners

Compares to:

Collecting game with reduction mechanisms

Other editions:

Currently none

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Tactic (turquoise): 2

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Interaction (brown): 2

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