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Stomple

Purple stomped, white still there

Cleverly stomped to win! This is the motto of Stomple, an abstract clearance game. Stomple comprises 49 marbles in seven colors, for six of those colors there is also a Stomple piece, for white there is no such piece. Each player draws at random a Stomple piece from the bag, the color of this piece is also the color for his marbles on the board. The 40 marbles are distributed randomly on the board. In turn each player starts the game in one of the rows at the edges of the board and stomps one marble down; it need of course not be one of his own color. From now own the Stomple piece starts from the spot it ended on last turn, you always either stomp an adjacent marble or a chain of marbles. A chain contains orthogonally or diagonally adjacent marbles of the same color, in one direction. When you cannot stomp an adjacent marble you must jump onto any marble of your own color still left on the board; should this marble be part of a chain you must stomp down the complete chain. If you cannot do a regular move you must quit the game. The last player left with marbles on the board scores 3 points for winning the round plus 3 points for each white marble that is left on the board plus 1 point for each colored marble on the board. When a player reaches or tops the score necessary for the current number of players, he wins the game.

Abstract simple and just challenging enough that at the end of a game one immediately fishes the marbles out of the tray and redistributes them, because that can’t happen that one is stomped down so unceremoniously! This time I will pick the best place to start from!

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 10+

Designer: Greg Zima

Art: not named

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Spin Master 2012

Web: www.spinmastergames.com

Genre: Placement game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Elegant design

Simple rules

High replay value

Good spatial sense is of help

Compares to:

Color Pop

Other editions:

Stomple, Spin Master USA

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): 0

Action (dark green): 0