preparation

FTF: First to Find

Geocaching on your gamed table

A landscape on the game board offers a secret cache. Players are Geocachers and search for it, alone or in a team in in three levels of difficulty. 49 landscape tiles are shuffled and laid out face-down on a7x7 grid, four of them openly as starting cross-roads. In your turn, you can move and/or reveal a landscape tile. For movement, there are detailed rules for movement along paths or in the terrain. Two of the tiles are marked with letters E and N as well as arrows indicating row or column. When one of the letters is found, you search the row/column for the cache by rolling one die and finding it with a result of 5 or 6. Finding the second letter opens a new row or column for searching; if you do not achieve a 5 or 6 there, you can then search all the tiles, roll the die after each tile and find the cache with a 6.

In the Multi Cache Mode the first cache is in the crossing point of the letter arrows; upon arrival there, you roll two dice for the coordinates of the second cache which you find upon arrival when rolling a 1; if not, you roll two dice for the next coordinates and find the cache there when rolling a 1 or a 2; and so on; there can be maximum 7 caches.

In the Mystery Cache Mode, all tiles are gathered up when N and E are found, leaving only the starting tiles and the second letter you found, and laid out again; if you then find the second letter, you score one point, the board is laid out again, etc.; whoever collects two points, wins.

An unusual topic which is nicely mirrored by the high element of chance; the basic mechanisms is simple, and the game all in all a nice family game.

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Aigar and Inga Alaveer

Artist: Kaisa Holsting

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: 2D6.ee 2016

Web: www.2d6.ee

Genre: Dice, tile revealing

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en et ru

In-game text: no

Comments:

Revised edition of Cache Hunt

Compares to:

Predecessor game Cache Hunt

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0