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Krasserfall

the life belt’ weight can help, too!

A race along the river - you first place your three team pawns into boats, add the life belt to a random boat and then roll the die in turn. Depending on the result you advance the boat in the resulting color, or relocate a pawn or the life belt to another boat. Not exactly exiting, is it? There is, however, the special set-up of the river and the boats. The game needs a normal dining table to play - it does not work on a low table or on the floor - and the board is laid out so that the safety net part of it hovers in the air at the table’s edge. Boats in the game are printed on clear plastic strips which are inserted into the board and which carry a fish as a counterweight under the free-hovering part of the board; with each forward motion of a boat, the hanging part of the strip gets longer and therefore heavier and inevitably at one point heavier than the boat and the boat is pulled over the edge into the safety net. Boat and crew are out of the game for the round. So, you try to keep your own boat safe by placing pawns in it- not necessarily your own, as heavy ones as possible. This needs a bit of tactic and a lot of luck in the rolls. When all boats but one have been pulled over the edge, the owner of the pawns in the last remaining boat in the river earn medals in relation to pawn sizes, and a new round begins. If you are first to collect six or more medals, you win.

Simply fantastic! In the end, its a lot of chance a little bit of tactic in relocating pawns and life belt, but extremely thrilling to watch and see the boats get nearer and nearer to the rim. There is even a little well-hidden physics in there!

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Bernhard Weber

Artist: Markus Erdt, Nora Nowatzyk

Price: ca. 39 Euro

Publisher: Ravensburger 2020

Web: wwww.ravensburger.de

Genre: Roll & move

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Amazing implementation of a simple mechanism

Ease basic rules

Attractive components

Series Kinderspiele für Groß und Klein

Good family game despite series allocation

Compares to:

First game of its kind

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 1

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0