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Kalimambo

The Rhino pushes the last in line

An unknown species, Kali, has infiltrated the caravan of explorers. Nobody knows where and when Kali will appear. All tourists, that is, the playing pieces of all players, start the game in a random line with Kali at the head of the line; Rhino Mambo is last in line. The heaps of elephant pooh are randomly distributed on the circular track and each player is given an identical deck of cards with numbers from 0 to 11. Then the caravan sets off: All players choose a card secretly and reveal it simultaneously and then a card from Kali’s stack is turned up. Who played the highest card goes first and places his tourist at the head of the caravan; all other players and Kali do the same in descending order of their card values. In case of a tie only the tourist among those in the tie who is furthest behind in the caravan moves. If you step into a heap of pooh you score -3 points; when the tourist on the spot directly before Mambo moves ahead, Mambo runs to the tourist now last in line and pushes him, that is, this tourist scores as many negative points as the Rhino has passed squares. When Kali steps into elephant pooh or is pushed by Rhino, the negative points are allocated to the player who played the lowest card in the current round. After 12 such rounds you win with the fewest number of negative points.

Zoch is the only publisher who makes a game out of pooh, again and again. And again and again it turns out to be a fun, well-working game like this one. Kalimambo is very much determined by chance; the more are playing the less you can plan your moves, just a fun party game for a larger group.

Players: 3-7

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Antonio Scrittore

Artist: Tobias Schweiger

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Zoch 2011

Web: www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre: Placement game with a chance element

Users: For families

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Funny topic

Nice beer & pretzel game for parties

Good for large groups

Compares to:

Mitternachtsparty, Den Letzten beißen die Hunde and other race games featuring importance of being last in line

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 1

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