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Black Dog

Afraid of the black dog?

DOG is a variant of Ludo or Mensch ärgere Dich nicht, BLACK DOG is a variant of DOG.

Four players form two teams, all communication between team members is prohibited and all players try, to get their own pawns to the finish area as quickly as possible. The first team that has all eight pawns at finish areas, wins.

At the start, you place one pawn from the starting area into your starting spot, the “Black Dog” pawn begins anywhere on the turntable in the middle of the board. For a round, each player is dealt five cards and, at the start of the round, team members swap one card among them.

You introduce pawns with starter cards or move pawns by playing a card; you always use the total value of the card and pass by your own or opposing pawns; if you end the move in a case with a pawn you defeat and it it goes back to its starting area. You also defeat a pawn by overtaking it with a Seven. If you cannot move a pawn in your turn, you are out of play for the rounds and your cards are forfeit. When you move a pawn on a paw case, the turntable is moved and carries this pawn and all others on the turntable on by a quarter turn. When all cards have been played or forfeited, the round ends and new cards are dealt-

Red cards have special functions; for black cards, the player using them sets their value between 1 and 7 and must first move one of his own pawns and then Black Dog. Black Dog sends pawns that he passes or reaches, back to their starting area. Black Dog itself can never be defeated or swapped by a red card.

This is a very nice variant of two classic games, a super family game with exactly the right amount of nettling.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Johannes Schmidauer-König

Artist: Dennis Lohausen

Price: ca. 22 Euro

Publisher: Schmidt Spiele 2016

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: Moving with cards

Users: For families

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Team version of DOG

Team play without communication

Good mix of card luck and tactic

Compares to:

Black Dog, Ludo, Mensch ärgere Dich nicht

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0