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Appaloosa

Pony Race

Appaloosas are a well-known, widely-used and versatile race of horses and ponies, used for races as well as Western-style riding.

At the start you are secretly assigned a pony color. The race track is laid out with 24 tile - starting line tile, finishing line tile, nine x grass, five x obstacles and eight horse shoe tiles. Six tiles in the colors of the six ponies are laid out open-faced and all ponies are placed at the starting line, regardless of how many players are participating. Horse shoe chips of values 1 to 5 are laid out.

In your turn you take the lowest available horse shoe chip, place it onto a free pony tile and move the pony of this color by the number of steps shown on the chip. Of course you need to move your own pony, too, but don't do it too obviously to avoid having your pony shunned by others and thus slowed down. When all five horse shoe chips are placed, the round ends and the starting player changes, he collects all chips from the tiles and begins the round with Chip #1. In case of less than five players some have a second turn in a round. If you start from an obstacle tile you must move backwards, from a horse shoe tile you move sum of horseshoe chip + horse shoe tile. When a pony passes the finish that belongs to a player, he wins; otherwise the pony and the horseshoe chip of highest value go out of play and the game continues until a pony assigned to a player passes the finish line.

Appaloosa features a standard topic for race games, using a nice mix of standard mechanisms with the limitation of horse shoe chips providing a cute additional camouflage effect in case of 2 to 4 players.

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Dominique Ehrhard

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2014

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: Horse racing

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: cz de en fr it hu nl pl sk

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice standard topic

Good mix of mechanisms

Also good family game

Compares to:

All race games featuring horses

Other editions:

Currently none

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