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Rock Me Archimedes

Balance and movement

A see-saw made from wood, comprising a half-circle foot that also holds the playing pieces, and a board with grooves and dents, showing color-indicated zones – one end zone for each player, two intermediate zones and a middle zone. Each player has 12 marbles of a color and selects his end zone. At the start of the game, all marbles are outside the board. Players alternate their turns.

The active player can either place on of his marbles from outside into any dent in the middle zone, or he can roll the die and move one several marbles accordingly. Valid options for movement are: Only orthogonally in any direction; you can roll a marble along the grooves or pick it up and set it down at the target dent; you can jump over opposing marbles – this counts as one step per marble – and each marble can only be moved once per turn. You must always do the full number of moves, and may use any zone on the board, even the end zone of your opponent. You cannot touch the see-saw and you cannot counter imbalance with additional marbles. If you manage to get four marbles into your end zone without misbalancing the board, you win. Variants offer a second victory condition – forcing the opponent’s end zone to touch the table; or you win with four marbles in any of the end zones, or you cannot roll the marbles.

A classy, elegant design and streamlined simple mechanisms for a game, in which you need to know the consequences of marble movements on the board’s balance; a too aggressive play can allow your opponent to win. In the basic version you can block your opponent by placing three marbles in his end zone.

Players: 2

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Matt Buchanan

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 45 Euro

Publisher: Spin Master 2018

Web: www.spinmaster.com

Genre: Balance, placement

Users: For families

Special: 2 players

Version: multi

Rules: cz de en es fr hu it nl pl pt ro ru sk

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition, with Marbles Brain Workshop

Changed packaging

Elegant design

Simple rules

Compares to:

Balance, Balance Duell

Other editions:

Marbles Brain Workshop 2012 (en)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 0