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27

Raise the tower!

In accordance with the name of the game you play with 27 discs and try, by stacking them, to achieve a higher tower than your opponent. Seven grey discs are laid out in a row between players; at each end, a red disc is placed. Each player has nine discs, black or white, and stacks them on the red disc at his end of the row.

Players alternate turns; the active player counts his towers, that is, stacks with a disc of his color on top, and then moves one of his stacks in total or any number of discs, even only one, from a stack as many steps forward, and never back; grey discs are the stepping stones and stay in place. Opposing discs can be taken along. You must move the exact number of steps and must arrive at the opposing red target disc, where you make your final stack, with an exact number of steps, too. There can be opposing discs in the stack, it is only the height that counts. When no-one can make a move anymore, you compare height of the end stacks, the player with the higher tower on the opposing red disc wins.

In a version, a grey disc is considered part of a stack and can be moved along, which of course shortens the path; grey discs count towards the tower height. If you want an even more difficult game, you consider the red discs as moveable, too, and can take them along; you then simply compare the end towers in the row.

An excellent start for a new, as yet nameless series of games from Steffen Spiele; they are meant to be quick, good filler games in boxes of the same size, and this goal was very well met with 28 - challenge, tactic, planning and no definite winning strategy.

Players: 2

Age: 9+

Time: 20+

Designer: Laurent Escoffier

Artist: Steffen Mühlhäuser, Bernd Kümmelmann

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: Steffen Spiele 2017

Web: www.steffen-spiele.de

Genre: Abstract, stacking

Users: For families

Special: 2 players

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Part of a series in the same box size

Abstract

No clear winning strategy

Compares to:

Stacking games for height

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0