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Men at Work

BUilding with steel girders

Build according to specifications and be named Worker of the Month are the goals in this game. Steel girders in four colors and supports are set out, instruction cards are stacked. The starting player positions three supports on the playing area and puts one girder of each color and one worker on. This starting position is decided by the starting player only, without specifications. Then the active player turns up an instruction card from the stack. This card and the backside of the card on top of the stack determine what must be placed how and where; for instance, a purple or white girder must touch two other colors. You may hold pieces with one hand only; pieces already in place can be lifted, touched or moved with the new piece to be placed. When building parts or a helmet fall off and touch playing area or a worker, the active player must discard a safety certificate and is out of play, if he has none left. When the card for Boss Rita is turned up, from now on,, the player who achieves the highest position in the construct with his newly placed piece, wins a certificate for Worker of the Month. You win either as the last one in play or with the given number of Worker of the Month certificates or with the highest total of Worker of the Month certificates plus safety certificates, when all building parts have been used up.

In der Foreman version you have two instruction cards for jokers; in the Crane variant you can use the crane for support, and in the Skyscraper variant you build inside the box bottom.

Not really new, but cleverly and attractively varied; a nice challenge for spatial thinking and dexterity.

Players: 2-5

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Rita Modl

Artist: Bernard Bittler, Chris Quilliams

Price: ca. 50 Euro

Publisher: Pretzel / Plan B / Pegasus Spiele 2018

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Build, stack

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Pretty components

Attractively varied mechanisms

Trains hand-eye coordination

Compares to:

Junk Art and other stacking games with specifications

Other editions:

Pretzel Games (en)

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3