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Micro Robots

Steps from start to finish!

The robot must be moved from start to finish. The double-sided boards show nine cases each with dice symbols from 1 to 6 in Blue, Yellow, Green, Red, Pink and White, each combination exactly once.

At the start of the game player decide on one side of the boards and then combine the four boards in any way into a square. The starting case is determined by rolling a color die and a number die and marked with the starting chip; then you roll the dice for the finish case and put a victory point chip on it.

Now each player by himself looks for a way from start to finish. The robot may only move horizontally or vertically and can only enter a case of the same color or the same number as the robot’s current location. The new case need not be adjacent to the current location. If you found a way, you name the number of steps and demonstrate your path. When your announcement is correct, you receive the victory point chip at the finish. The finish case becomes the starting case for the next round.

When the path that is demonstrated does not correspond to the step announcement, the player must, if possible, give a victory point chip to the player with currently fewest chips and the chip in the finish case goes back into stock. If you earn your 5^th chip or have most of them, when all have been given out, you win.

Micro Robots can also be used as a variant for Ricochet Robots, with special rules for the clear robot as an additional robot in the game.

Micro Robots is a stand-alone game and also a felicitous example for how to simplify an elegant, very challenging game mechanism without watering down the basic idea or the reduce the fun in playing the game.

Players: 2+

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Andreas Kuhnekath

Artist: Fiore GmbH

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: Abacusspiele 2016

Web: www.abacusspiele.de

Genre: Path finding

Users: For families

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simplified version of Ricochet Robots

Stand-alone game

Needs little room to play

Nice variation of the basic mechanism

Compares to:

Ricochet Robots

Other editions:

Currently none

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