prsentation

Schildkrötenrennen

Race for the salad

Colorful turtles have their eyes on the salad heads at the other end of the meadow and are happy to be carried there on the back of other turtles, because they are not natural racers. Each player is secretly assigned a turtle color - blue, green, yellow, red or purple - and is dealt five cards, the rest is draw pile. In your turn, you play a card and move the turtle of this color accordingly, forward or backwards - two steps forward for two plus symbols, one step forward for one plus symbol, and one step backwards for one minus symbol. If the card shows an arrow, the turtle in last place advances one step. If several turtles are in last place together, the active player decides which one to move. Otherwise, you always move the turtle of the color shown on the card you played. Rainbow turtles are jokers for each turtle color, you can move any turtle one step forward or backwards with such a card. You cannot play a card with a minus symbol for turtles still in starting position. When a turtle arrives at a case already occupied by one or several turtles, the arriving turtle is put on top of all others there. If you move a turtle in a stack, it carries along all turtles on top of it and leaves all turtles underneath behind. The first turtle to arrive at the finish, wins the game. If a stack reaches the finish, the turtle at the bottom wins.

A very pretty and very well-working game that offers interesting first glimpses into bluff and tactical possibilities, from playing cards in other colors than that of your own turtle, or from using the piggyback mechanism - how nice that the racing turtles are making another appearance.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 20+

Designer: Reiner Knizia

Artist: Rolf Arvi Vogt

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2019

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: Racing

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de + 13 languages

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition, first edition Winning Moves 2004

Simple rules

Practical format

Nice mechanisms

Compares to:

Tempo, kleine Schnecke; simple race games

Other editions:

In 13 languages with various publishers

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0