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Rasend schnell

The games product range of „Die Spiegelburg“ has been extended in fall of 2011 by a new range of card games that are presented under the heading of „Das besondere Kartenspiel“. Rasend Schnell is one of the four titles currently available.

Each player chooses a car color and takes the corresponding team card, then the starting order of one car per color is determined randomly and the cars are lined up accordingly, the second car of each color is added in reverse order, so a possible starting line-up might be: rod-blue-green-yellow-yellow-green-blue-red. When fewer than four are playing, the colors not chosen are joining the race without drivers. You are dealt for cards, the rest is stacked for a draw pile. In turn you play a card, resolve its effect and draw a card, the player of the first car in line starts the game. Possible actions are: Overtake - a car goes one or two positions forward, Spinout - a car of your choice goes back by two positions, In Pursuit - one of the last four cards goes forward by three positions, and Slipstream - a car of the color shown on the card goes forward four positions, but the car directly behind goes forward, too.

When you draw the last card from the pile, the game ends and 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point are awarded to the first six cards in the race; after three such races you win with the highest total score.

As all games of the series Rasend Schnell is very beautifully done, too, and plays easily and quickly, it is exactly right for targeted age group - the racing flair is nicely transmitted and Slipstream and In Pursuit even allow for a little bit of tactic.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 15+

Designer: Reiner Knizia

Art: Niklas Böwer

Price: ca. 7 Euro

Publisher: Die Spiegelburg 2011

Web: www.spiegelburg.de

Genre: Race game with cards

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text:

Comments:

Extremely attractive design in a slide-out box

Simple rules

More luck in cards than tactic+

Compares to:

All other racing games with movement by cards

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): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0