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Horse Fever

Publisher: Cranio Creations

Designer: Lorenzo Silva, Lorenzo Tucci Sorrentino

Players are rich and want to become the „Best Better Ever”. So you try to place the best bets in a pre-set number of rounds to win victory points and money. To do so you must fix races, buy horses and stables, pay your assistants, win auctions and take out loan from the bookies. The rounds comprise the phases 1 – Purchase , you buy horses, stables, assistants, target cards or action cards and take out loans; 2 – Betting and race fixing; 3 – Race anda4 – Auction, you can sell or buy a victory point for money in auctions. The interesting features are the fixing of the race and the race itself. Fixing happens by playing action cards next to the horses after the first round of bets. You must play all action cards that you hold. Then a second betting round follows. The race is a two-part affair. First the action cards with the horses are turned up and implemented. Then horses are moved by turning up one movement card after the other, horses are moved according their odds, as stated on the card. After each card the two Sprint Dice are rolled and the result is implemented. When each horse has passed the finish line, the bets are paid out and then the odds adjusted for the next round. At the end you pay pack the loans plis interest; if you do not have enough money, you lose immediately. Then victory points are scored from all your assets. The rules list variants for a shorter family game and a party game.

Horse Fever is a very well made and well working simulation, with the right amount of luck thrown in and a lot of tactics, combined with period touches and lots of fun, especially in the party variant.

Spieler         : 2-5

Alter            : ages 10 and up

Dauer           : approx.90 min

Autor           : Lorenzo Silva, Lorenzo Tucci Sorrentino

Grafik          : Giulia Ghigini, Anna Federica Ferrara

Vertrieb A.   : Heidelberger

Preis            : approx. 35,00 Euro

Verlag          : Cranio Creations 2009

                     www.craniocreations.com

Genre                    : Horse race game

Zielgruppe             : With friends

Mechanismen         : buy and run horses, fix race, bet

Kommentar:

Topic very nicely transferred to the game

Good, compact rules in four languages

Well-working simulation

Variants for a family game and a party game

Vergleichbar:

Win, plae & Show, Kopf an Kopf and other horse racing games

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