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Lino

Score for complete rows

Lino basically is a game of forming rows – you alternate in placing one of your pieces onto a square and score for completing rows during the game and at the end of the game for rows of four or more of your own pieces. Each player starts with 25 pieces, one them is used as a marker on the scoring track.

Before you start placing pieces the board is prepared: You start by laying out a configuration according to the rules. Then each player relocates three square tiles from this starting layout. Relocated tiles must remain connected to at least one other tile of the board over a border or a corner, and you may not relocate a tile to a spot where another tile has already been taken away, and you may not relocate a tile that has already been relocated once.

Then players alternate in placing one of their stones onto the board. If you place a stone onto the last empty square in a row of the board you score the number of squares in the row. You can complete more than one row at the same time. If you miss that you completed a row you do not score the points later. When all pieces have been placed each player scores points for sequences made up from his own pieces: For a row of four pieces you score 10 points, for a row of 5 already 20 points, six pieces in a row earn you 30 points and if you managed to arrange 7 or more pieces in a row you achieve 40 points for that.

Lino is a very beautiful abstract game with unusual details in the mechanisms, in variants you can use the markings on the back of the board tiles; a game that can be absolutely recommended to fans of games for two players.

Spieler         : 2

Alter            : ages 8 and up

Dauer           : ca. 20 min

Autor           : Chislaine van den Bulk

Grafik          : Remco Gazan

Titel englisch          : -

Preis            : ca. 15,00 Euro

Verlag          : Giuoco 2010

  www.giuoco.nl

Genre                    : abstract placement game

Zielgruppe             : With friends

Mechanismen         : Place pieces, complete rows

Kommentar:

Classy design

Abstract game for two

Interesting variant of the x-in-a-row mechanism

Veriants using markings on the backside of the tiles

Vergleichbar:

4 in a row and other games with sequence forming

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