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Viva Topo!

a turbulent race for cheese

Your mice family wants to reach its own land of cheese plenitude, but unfortunately the cat is chasing the mice. All mice families, comprising four mice of one color in a family, begin on their starting case; the cat begins of one of her own starting cases, according to the respective number of players. During the game, the cat only moves on the cases marked for her, at the start slowly, and then faster and faster, because the cat can jump over cases.

The active player rolls the die - for a number you move one of your mice, you cannot split the result to move more than one mouse. If your die result is cat + number, you move first one of your own mice by one step, then the cat moves one step. When the cat gets too close to mouse, you can also find sanctuary for this mouse with the relatives living in the corner cases of the board. You can also earn cheese when you go to your relatives, but this mouse is out of play and stays with the relatives. If you manage to move a mouse to the land of cheese plenitude, you earn a whole wheel of cheese, that are six pieces of cheese.

When the cat encounters a mouse, either by entering the same case or overtaking a mouse or mice, this mouse or these mice are out of play. When there is no mouse left on the round track, the player with most pieces of cheese wins.

Viva Topo is a simple roll & move game without any interaction between players; the mechanism for the cat is simple and yet sophisticated and the sanctuary option in the corner cases introduces children to first tactical options. The beautiful components merit special praise, the mice are enchanting.

Players: 2-4

Age: 4+

Time: 30+

Designer: Manfred Ludwig

Artist: Anne Pätzke

Price: ca. 21 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2015

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: roll, move

Users: For children

Version: de en + cz es fr hu pl pt

Rules:

In-game text:

Comments:

New edition

Components as in the first edition

No interaction

Simple mechanisms, suitable for the intended age

Compares to:

Roll & move games without interaction

Other editions:

Ediciones MasQueOca (es, pt), Egmont Polska (pl), Gamer Café (hu), Matagot (fr), Mindok (cz)

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0