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Shop Hop

Racing around the mall

Shopping and racing around the mall! You prepare the shopping center; shops are set up around the board with the “open” side facing the board, the corresponding wares are stacked on the basket cases in front. Player pawns start on key cases and each player has a token for his pawn and coins of value 20.

The active player decides if he wants to turn the spinner, move his marker and do an action - buy or open/close shop with or without jumping to a key case -  or remains in place to do either an action or to do nothing. Movement is done to the next free spot of the color indicated by the spinner, in any direction; if you stand - with or without movement - on a case showing a dice image and if the shop next to this case is open, you can by the ware for coins equal to the number of dice pips on the case. If you stand on a key case or if you pay coins of value 5 and jump to a key case, you can close an open shop or re-open a closed shop. If you buy too expensively and are out of money - there is no possibility to earn money in the game - you are out of play. Whoever is first to buy eight different wares, wins.

In an easier version, you may only close one shop during the game and indicate this by turning over your pawn marker the key side.

Nice and good! The attractive mix of chance, move and collect is surprisingly tactical for a game for children, due to the option of closing and opening shops as well as the limited amount of money. The price determination by dice value is cute, and the free choice of direction allows a little tactic here, too, as price as a deciding factor in the game.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 30+

Designer: Daan Kreek

Artist: Lena Hesse

Price: ca. 23 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2017

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: Collect, race

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: cz de fr hu it pl sk

In-game text: no

Comments:

Attractive components

Good rules

Tactic from price/money limit and opening/closing shops

A good family game, too

Compares to:

Buying games with wares value and money limit

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 2

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