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Echidna Shuffle

A race in the woods

Echidnas or Spiny Ant Eaters are roaming the woods and are friendly enough to offer insects a ride on their back. Echidnas are placed at your choice on the forest or snow side of the double-sided board; each player marks an empty case with his pickup marker and hands his three tree stumps to his left neighbor for placement on the board – no two stumps of a color are allowed on the same case.

The active player rolls a die and moves one or several Echidnas accordingly along the arrows, always the full number of steps. Then you mark the die result on the number board, move the marker down and, in your next turn, you move according to the number beneath the marker. In your turns, you alternate those two ways to determine your movement range. An Echidna cannot enter a case with another Echidna. If an Echidna is in your way, you move it aside.

If, at the start of your turn, an Echidna sits on your pickup marker, you can put one of your insects on its back. If an Echidna arrives at a tree stump and carries an insect in the stump color, the insect is taken out of play together with the stump. Whoever is first to have collected all his own insects, wins.

In variants, you use movement tokens which you can spend for additional steps, or you receive movement tokens if you have only one stump left on the board, or you use only the die to determine movement range or you take back insects from stumps gone out of play and win with three stumps taken out.

Wow! What amazing components what a well-made and well-working logistics game for the family! It is simple enough for children, tactical enough for adults – harmonious fun to play!

Players: 2-6

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Kris Gould

Artist: Damon Brown, Mike Raabe

Price: ca. 26 Euro

Publisher: Wattsalpoag Games 2018

Web: www.wattsalpoag.myshopify.com

Genre: Race, collect

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Sensational components

Nice mxi of luck and a bit of tactic

Varying movement arrows on the two boards

(c) Image van00uber (BGG)

Compares to:

Race games with logistics elements

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): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0