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Race for the Summit

Scale the rocks with cards

Players are sports climbers on their way to the summit. Each round you first play the climbing phase and then the action phase. In the climbing phase players must spend a limited number of stamina points to move and to click in on safety bolts. In the action phase you must choose and implement an action card from a limited supply. It is necessary to find a good balance between your own advantages and using any chance to hinder other climbers. If you are the first clip into the anchor card at the summit you win.

Following extensive rules you prepare a card display from starting cards, climbing cards and summit cards, augmented by an environment card and a fatigue card. Each player then draws a character card with corresponding climber card. In your climbing phase you can use 3 or 2 stamina points as determined by your position in relation to the fatigue card and keep choosing clipping in or moving according to detailed rules until you either stop or fall.

In the action phase you choose a card and enact it. The last active player from the climbing round starts to choose. Depending on the card type you must play the card immediately, play it at the start of your next turn or discard, play it in the next turn in any case or keep it until you want to use it.

Despite the simple sounding topic this is a far from simple game. Race for the summit presents you with a rather difficult choice between risk and security, you must carefully calculate how often to clip in or risk a fall – especially at the start of the game, because if fall back to the ground, you drop out of the game.

Spieler         : 2-6

Alter            : ages 8 and up

Dauer           : approx. 45 min

Autor           : Mike Lachtanski

Grafik          : Ashley-Renee Cribbings

Titel englisch          : ident

Preis            : ca. 18,00 Euro

Verlag          : Scimitar Games 2009

                     www.scimitargames.com

Genre                    : Card placement game

Zielgruppe             : With friends

Mechanismen         : Move between cards, implement card effects

Kommentar:

Rare topic

Rather complicated rules

Heavy interaction between cards

Need some games to get acquainted with the game

Only available in English

Vergleichbar:

All movement games with different costs per move and pawn and different effects of locations reached

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