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Crosswise

Triplet in the orange column

24 tiles with symbols should be placed to form combinations; one team scores the orange columns, the other one the green ones. Regardless of the number of players always two teams play each other, in case of three players one plays as a team against the other two. Members of a team cannot confer on their moves. Each player starts with four randomly drawn tiles; in a game of three the single player draws 6 tiles at the start. In your turn you either place a tile on any free spot or use an action tile. There are four different action tiles, you can use them to remove a tile, relocate a tile, swap two tiles ore replace a tile on the board with a tile from your hand. If you manage to form a row of six identical symbols you win the game immediately. If nobody manages this, plays go on until the last spot on the board is filled. Tiles remaining in your hand are not important and are set aside. Each team scores the columns of its color. Six different tiles in a column score you 6 points; otherwise you score for groups of symbols: Pairs, triplets, quadruplets and quintuplets. It is important to remember when scoring that tiles for a combination need not be adjacent, it is sufficient for them to be in the same column. The team that achieves the highest score wins the game.

Crosswise offers simple, interesting fun in the tradition of Yahtzee or Rummy; in you first games you must pay special attention not to overlook possible combination due to the unusual rule that tiles for combinations must not be adjacent. Good fun from an attractive, abstract placement game, a good family game.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Nicholas Cravotta

Artist: Dennis Lohhausen

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Schmidt Spiele

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: Placement and set collecting game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice components

Non-adjacent combinations need getting used to

Very simple rules

Good family game

Compares to:

Rummy and other placement games on symbol combinations

Other editions:

English edition at MindWare

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0