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Stellium

constellations in Galaxies

Marbles represent astral bodies, which are placed on discs = galaxies on the board = universe to form constellation depicted on target cards to acquire the cards for victory points. One marble per color is placed on the starting positions of each galaxy; target cards are displayed, and each player selects a target card.

You draw a marble, place it in one of the galaxies and resolve the effect: Permutation for Green = Planet: You swap another planet with any other marble. Collision for Blue = Comet; a comet relocates another marble and is placed in the vacated spot; you cannot put a comet in an empty spot. Rotation for Yellow = Star, you rotate the galaxy as far as you want, albeit not 360 degrees. Attraction for Red = Supernova; a supernova activates a Black Hole, which attracts another marble, but never the Supernova itself. Instead of using the effect of the marble, you can use one of your influence tokens to do the action of one color with a marble of another color. To complete your turn, you select a target card. Marbles in constellations used to complete a target card are put into the bag, all but one. If someone tops the score limit or the target cards are used, you have one more turn and win with most points from completed targets, unused influence tokens and color bonuses for completed targets.

A challenging detail in this very good family game: Components are part of the mechanism; each marble color feels different to the touch; thus, with dexterity and later in the game memory for marbles put back into the bag you can acquire the marble needed to complete a constellation.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 30+

Designer: Rémi Saunier

Artist: Aurélie Guarino

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Ankama 2017

Web: www.ankama.com

Genre: Placement, pattern formation

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: en es fr ru

In-game text: no

Comments:

High quality, beautiful components

Marbles selectable in a limited way

Memorizing used marbles can help

Compares to:

Pattern formation games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 0