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Crows

They love all that glitters!

Players want to attract lots of crows with their shiny objects and thus score points. To do so you place tree tiles showing 0 to 3 crows or trash or trinkets or cemeteries in a given starting display. You begin the game with 1 trash tile and 1 Shiny Object.

Each round comprises one turn per player, then crows flock and players score points, then the murder = flock of crows scatters and the round ends.

In your turn you place a tile from the stock or your own trash tile on a free spot in the display, according to exact placement rules, and then place the necessary crows on the new tile. Then you place your Shiny Object on a free tile without crow pieces, but not on a trash tile. If you place it on a tree without crow you receive a special token that you can use later for special effects, e.g. „no cemetery“. For the crows flocking you move crows in straight line to the next shiny object in the same row or column, with exact rules for gaps, trash and trinket tiles. Then each crow with your own Shiny Object scores you 1 point, or 2 points if on a cemetery. When there are more than 6 crows on a tile after flocking, the murder scatters: 2 crows mate and go out of the game, the others are redistributed. Then you discard special tokens that you did use and take back your Shiny Object. When all tiles have been placed you score for unused special tokens and then the player with most points wins.

Crows is a very tactical placement game with an unusual but very coherently executed topic, you must plan well for placing your Shiny Object. With the rule variations provided it turns into an excellent family game.

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 10+

Dauer           : ca. 45 min

Autor           : Tyler Sigman

Grafik          : Patrick LaMontagne

Titel             : ident

Preis            : ca. 30 Euro

Verlag          : Valley Games 2010

www.valleygames.ca

Genre                    : Placement and amassing game

Zielgruppe             : With friends

Version                           : multi

Rules                              : en de fr

In-game use of language   : no

Kommentar:

Unusual, attractive topic

Rules variants for a simpler family game

Regelvarianten für einfacheres Spiel für Familien

Special tokens and tile interaction allow enough tactics

Vergleichbar:

Placement games scoring points for positions in relation to other positions

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