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Discover India

Kolams with groups of symbols

Player are travel through India as a group. The country is divided into regions, roads connect the cities and each player has his own individual game board, a Kolam. At the start of the game a symbol tile is placed into each city, a stack of 5 tiles go into the airport cities. The starting player begins in an airport city. Then the active player moves his marker, either into a free city adjacent to the target city of the  previous player or to another airport. If a player has flown the next one cannot do so. Cities are adjacent when connected by a road. Then you take the tile of the city you reached and draw another tile for the city if necessary. The first tile you take always goes to the barter spot of your Kolam, from your 2^nd tile on you can place a new tile either directly on your Kolam or swap it with the tile in your barter spot or place it in another player’s barter stop and take his tile there and place it in your Kolam for the cost of one victory point. In cities with a festival marker you receive a card, too, and relocate the festival marker. When all Kolams are filled, you score groups of identical symbols on your Kolam and city cards you own, the player with the highest score wins.

In a version you can place the tiles acquired in cities with a festival markers face down on your Kolam, this connects identical symbols that are not adjacent. The cards picked up there also count for symbols.

Discover India is a nice game movement and acquisition, which is upgraded by the Kolam mechanism, the Challenge version offers quite a lot of tactics for the collection of identical symbols.

Spieler         : 2-5

Alter            : ages 8+

Dauer           : ca. 45 min

Autor           : Günter Cornett, Peer Sylvester

Grafik          : Claus Stephan, Martin Hoffmann

Titel            : ident

Preis            : ca. 30 Euro

Verlag          : Queen Games 2010

Genre                    : Movement and acquisition game

Zielgruppe             : For families

Version                           : multi

Rules                              : de en

In-game use of language   : no

Kommentar:

Nice components

Attractive version of standard mechanisms

Challenge-version allows more tactical play

Vergleichbar:

All other travel games with collecting objects

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Taktik                  3

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