Family                

Alter                    8

Spezial                

Cornucopia

Plenty of fruit and vegetables

Players are faced with a plethora of fruit and vegetables and need to fill baskets with it. One basket will only accept five pieces of the same kind, the other four baskets either accept five pieces of kind or five different pieces. You form a grid from five basket cards laid out horizontally and 6 stacks of bidding cards vertically and place a starting “seeding” according to the rules into the grid. In your turn you turn a bidding card by 90 degrees and thus make your bid by denoting with the cards how many cards you will draw from the stack to complete a basket. The other players have 10 seconds to place 1-3 blue chips on their indicator for yes or no. Then you turn up one card after the other up to the amount you did bid and place each card into a row to make a basket of identical or all different pieces. When a basket is filled your move ends, even if could draw more cards. If you did fill a basket you receive the bidding card and the coins depicted on it, the other players take blue chips equal of the amount that they did bid if they were successful. If you only draw cards that you cannot place or to have not filled a basket at the end of your turn costs you chips. At the end of the game you score for chips and card combinations of rows or groups made up from the bidding cards.

This is a nice little quick game with some tactical finesses, to take 6 cards earns you few coins but surely a full basket. 4 is the safe middle, or rather take more and mot lose a coin? Most of the fun is in bidding on the other players. At the moment the game is only available in English.

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 8 and up

Dauer           : ca. 60 min

Autor           : Carlo A. Rossi, Lorenzo Tarabini

Grafik          : Rick Soued Charlie Binkele, Cary Greyson

Titel            : ident

Preis            : ca. 26,00 Euro

Verlag          : Gryphon / Fred 2010

www.freddistribution.com

Genre                    : A game of placement and auction

Zielgruppe             : For families

Mechanismen         : Bid for cards, fill baskets

Kommentar:

Very attractive bidding mechanism

Some tactics possible

At the moment only available in English

Betting keeps all players involved all the time

Vergleichbar:

Cardcassonne and other games to secure or complete rows of cards

Zufall                            2

Taktik                  2

Strategie__                 

Kreativität          

Wissen_

Gedächtnis         

Kommunikation  

Interaktion                   2

Geschicklichkeit 

Action