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Barking Up The Wrong Tree
collect trees instead of barking at them
You are meant to collect as many different trees as possible and must bark up the right tree for this, that is, place dogs at trees.
63 cards feature ten types of dogs, six stray dogs and seven different cats, for which there are also markers. 40 discs represent ten types of trees in different numbers. Those trees are stacked face-down in five stacks of three, four, five, six and seven discs – the rest is set aside - and each player gets one cat card. In round One you use the first tree stack with three cards, in the following rounds the next stack in turn. All players then receive as many cards as there are trees in the round.
Then you can discard one or more cat cards, draw cards and place a cat marker at a tree. Then you can add one or more dogs of one type to a tree where there are none of this type and where you did not yet place cards. Or you can pass for the round.
At a tree with a cat marker you can add any number of dogs of types that are not already there and can do this in several rounds. When all have passed, the trees are given to the player with most dogs there, in case of a tie the rank of the dogs decides. Trees without dogs go out of the game, all players keep remaining cards – limit of 10 – and the next round is prepared. After five rounds the first tree of a type scores 3 points, the second one 2 points and each additional tree only 1 point.
This is a cute game about collecting a set of as many different trees as possible, so don’t bark up the wrong, that is, the same tree too often. Again, a cute, fast, fun game with some strategic and tactical choices.
Players: 2-5
Age: 14+
Time: 30+
Designer: Gary Dicken, Steve Kendall, Phil Kendall
Artist: Marco Primo
Price: ca. 20 Euro
Publisher: Ragnar Brothers 2015
Genre: Placement, collecting
Users: With friends
Version: multi
Rules: de en
In-game text: no
Comments:
Cute very individual drawings
Topic very nicely implemented
Nice, fun filler game
Compares to:
Set collecting games
Other editions:
Currently none
Chance (pink): 2
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