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Clacks A discworld Board game
Lamp patterns for letters
As a clacks operator in Ankh-Morpork you want to transmit messages faster than the post office. In the middle of the board 16 lamp tiles are set out, for each letter there is a pattern of lit lamps in a rectangle of 2x3 lamps. Between those lamps you find green and red Tower Select Buttons. Each player is assigned a color and you only use lamps around your buttons. Your marker begins on one of the starting buttons. Clacks cards name words and show the lamp patterns for each letter in the word. On pattern cards, called jacquards, you find two to four dots in varying geometric patterns.
In the competitive game you spend maximum five stress points per round; you move – if you did transmit a letter in your previous turn – to another of your tower buttons, for one stress point per tower – and then play jacquards for maximum the remaining number of stress points, to turn over lamps according to to pattern on the jacquard. Jacquards with a fault mark give you a Fault card, that you can play later in the game. If you have formed the pattern for a letter, you mark it on the card. If you are first to have thus transmitted your complete word in the correct letter sequence, you win.
In the cooperative game all players together must transmit a two-word message before the Post Coach reaches Genua – each stress point on jacquards you use causes one step for the Post Coach.
You seem to hear the shutters clack while you look for suitable patterns and hope that nobody plays a fault card against you in this excellent implementation of the topic from Going Postal by Terry Pratchett into a challenging family game.
Players: 1-4
Age: 7+
Time: 30+
Designer: Leonard Boyd, David Brashaw
Artist: Amber Grundy
Price: ca. 40 Euro
Publisher: Backspindle Games 2015
Genre: Pattern formation
Users: For families
Special: 1 player
Version: en
Rules: en pl
In-game text: no
Comments:
Very good components
Topic excellently implemented
Pattern formation puzzle
Challenging and well-working
Solo version included
Compares to:
All games with pattern formation my turning over tiles
Other editions:
Phalanx (pl)
Chance (pink): 1
Tactic (turquoise): 2
Strategy (blue): 2
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 1
Memory (orange): 0
Communication (red): 2
Interaction (brown): 3
Dexterity (green): 0
Action (dark green): 0