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Make ‚n’ Break Architect

Folding rule as construction material

The core mechanism of the Make ‚n‘ Break games remains the same - you reproduce shapes on templates. This time, however, not one player is trying to form as many shapes as he can within the time frame of the timer with the available blocks, but each player has a folding rule and all players simultaneously use the same template.

The folding rule has ten segments in ten colors, the building cards are green on one side for easy shapes and yellow on the other side for difficult shapes and are stacked accordingly. Each player begins with a completely opened folding rule and the top building card is revealed. All players now try simultaneously to form the template shape on the card with their folding rule. When the template shape is monochromatic, you must only form the shape. When the template shows colors, you reproduce the shape with the depicted colors in the given positions, the other colors are irrelevant. Parts of the folding rule that you do not need are folded away behind other parts, the shape must exactly correspond to the template. If you are done, you call “first” and turn over the timer. Now all other players have the runtime of the timer to form the shape correctly. Then all players with a correct shape score the points stated on the template card and take point chips. The first one to form the shape scores one bonus point. You win with 12 points.

Folding instead of stacking. A creative and cute idea, which works exceedingly well and is, maybe, a tat more difficult than stacking, as you cannot simply take the block you need, but must fold superfluous segments away properly. Spatial thinking is fun!

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Dennis Kirps, Christian Kruchten, Jean-Claude Pellin

Artist: Walter Pepperle

Price: ca. 31 Euro

Publisher: Ravensburger 2016

Web: www.ravensburger.de

Genre: Shape forming

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very attractive variant

Compares to:

All other editions of Make ‘n’ Break

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3