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Shiftago

Rows of marbles

On a board of 7x7 cases you want to be first to arrange marbles of your color in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row, winning conditions vary in relation to the chosen version of the game and the number of players; you might have to form one or several rows of varying length to win.

The basic rules are always the same: You place one of your 22 marbles in a border case of any track on the board. If this case is already occupied by a marble, you shunt it along to the next case, if necessary chain reaction for additional adjacent marbles are resolved, but you can never push a marble off the board.

A check on the formation of a row is always done for the current situation after the active player has placed his marble, rows of other players’ marbles that might have been formed by the turn of the active player are disregarded.

In the variant of

In the version Shiftago Express you need to form rows, in a game of two players you must align five marbles in a row, in a game of three and four players you align four marbles. In Shiftago Expert and Shiftago Extreme you score points for rows that you form – you win with 10 points scored by forming rows of 5, 6 or 7 marbles for 2, 5 or 10 points; again you only score rows formed by the active player who, after scoring a row, has another turn. In Shiftago Extreme you also score rows of 3 or 4 marbles, but with 0 points.

Abstract, beautiful, classy, tricky and well-working with Shiftago Express providing training games for the two other version. You need to plan despite permanently changing situation on the board in this tactical and strategic jewel.

Players:2-4

Age: 8+

Time: variable

Designer: Robert Witter, Frank Warneke

Artist: Ilsespiel

Price: ca. 50 Euro

Publisher: WiWa Spiele 2016

Web: www.shiftago.de

Genre: Abstract, shunting

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Classy components

Simple basic rules

Three game variants

Tactical und strategic challenge

Compares to:

Abalone and other marble-shunting games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0