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Ivor the Engine

Sheep, coal und gold in wales

Once upon a time … there was, somewhere in Wales, a railway company with an endless name - The Merioneth and Llantisilly Tail Traction Company Limited, and somewhere in the top left-hand corner of Wales there lived the rail engine of the same name, who, to her friends, was simply known as Ivor. In this game Ivor collects lost sheep and completes jobs for his friends, based on the stories from the TV series.

In your turn you first take a sheep from your current location and might get bonus sheep under certain conditions. Then you have the option for a free move with your own car to a connected adjacent location, connection are single-track lines. You cannot stop at a location with an opposing car, but you can pass through them. Additional moves can be made, but cost coal or cards featuring movement as a special action. Anytime in a turn you can spend one gold to buy two coal, but you can never buy gold with coal! If you are at a location and have the corresponding job card you can play it and earn sheep and maybe coal or gold. But you can only complete a job at a location that is free of sheep. Instead of completing a job you can use the job card for its special action. Then you take a card from the display and refill the display with a new card. If someone has collected 20 or 25 sheep you get, at the end of the round, sheep for gold and event cards and win with most sheep.

Much easier than it sounds, a pretty family game, you move across the board and try to be where there are sheep, or none, if you want to do a job - nicely made, with pretty graphics and good components, just nice allover!

Players: 3-5

Age: 8+

Time: 60+

Designer: Tony Boydell

Artist: Peter Firmin, Klemens Franz, Charlie Paull

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Surprised Stare Games 2014

Web: www.surprisedstaregames.co.uk

Genre: Collecting game

Users: For families

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Based on the TV series by Peter Firmin

Nice family game

Some tactic is possible

Compares to:

All movement and collecting games with location conditions

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

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