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Leinen los!

Boat race around buoys

Queen Lonne of Ovelgonne holds a boat race on the high seas. Players choose one of two tracks - yellow for easy and red for difficult - and place their boats at the start. The double bollard is set out with the rope completely unwound. One player takes the bollard piece, calls “cast off!” and winds the the rope in loops shaped like an eight around the double bollard, while the active player pushes his boat along the track with a finger on the engine piece. The buoys must not be touched or your turn ends instantly. Other boats on the track may be pushed aside and your boat may not stop in shark-infested water; if necessary, you move it back until it does not touch the dark water areas any more. If your boat leaves the water by touching an island or land at the edge of the board or if you push the boat off the board, your turn also ends instantly.

When the rope is completely wound on the bollard, the bollard player calls “stop”, the active player ends his turn and the turn to push the boat passes to the next player. The bollard player remains active until it is his turn to push his own boat. The first player to cross the finish line wins.

Younger children can be allowed to ignore buoys, islands or shark and may also touch the engine with more than one finger. For a variant, you can play the game also without the board; you set out a track with buoys and other items on a table or on the floor.

Leinen los! is an enchanting game for children as well as for families, with highly attractive components and simple rules, a happy re-edition of a master piece by Alex Randolph, surely destined to become a game classic for children.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Alex Randolph

Artist: Matthias Holländer

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Zoch Verlag 2017

Web: www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre: Race, dexterity, time limit

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition

First edition Haba 1996

Enchanting components

Easy rules

Version without board

Good family game, too

Compares to:

Dexterity games with a time limit

Other editions:

Currently none

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