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Völuspa

Odin and Thor versus Loki and Fenrir

The Norse Myths tell of the endless rivalry among mighty gods, dangerous creatures and forgotten races for dominance. You place tiles with characters and creatures in order to dominate other tiles and to score. In your turn you play a tile from your hand and place it into the display - it must touch at least one other tile and there can be only seven tiles in a row or column. When the newly placed tile has the highest value in a row or column you score the number of tiles in this row or column for points. Some tiles have special abilities that influence scoring or placement possibilities - next to a Troll tile you can only place another Troll tile; with a Dragon tile you can cover other tiles; a Fenrir tile only scores Fenrir tiles in row or column; but a single Fenrir tile in a row scores 4 points, even if there are more Fenrir tiles in the corresponding column; a Fenrir tile next to a Loki tile is worth 0. If you place a Valkyrie tile at the start and end of a row you score the value of the row; a Loki tile renders a Valkyrie tile worthless. A Skadi tile can be placed normally or lets you swap a tile from your hand with a tile from the display, with the exception of a Dragon tile or a tile next to a Troll tile.

The expansion Saga of Edda is included- each player is given a Hel tile; you place it face-down and it works like a gap; you can place seven tiles next to it! Other new tiles are Sea Serpent, Jotunn and Hermod.

Völuspa is a visually very beautiful, albeit, according to the topic, rather gloomy-designed placement game; the allure is in the optimum use of all special effects of each different kind of tile.

Players: 2-5

Age: 0+

Time: 45+

Designer: Scott Caputo

Artist: Pierô

Price: ca. 23 Euro

Publisher: White Goblin Games 2012

Web: www.whitegoblingames.com

Genre: Tile placement

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Includes Saga of Edda expansion

Beautiful but gloomy graphics

Very simple basic rules

Needs optimum use of tile effects

New edition of Kachina, Bucephalus Games

Compares to:

All placement games with scoring of rows or columns

Other editions:

Stronghold Games

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0