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Tropicano

bridges between islands

Little pirates are on the hunt for treasures and need to build a bridge from their respective islands to the treasure island in the middle before they can salvage the treasure.

A treasure piece is hidden beneath the palm tree on the middle island; players choose a pawn and place it on the island of the same color in one of the corners. Bridge parts are sorted by size and set out ready. The active player rolls the die: For bridge part symbols you take the corresponding part or parts from stock and add it/them to your island or bridge. Parts in higher levels may not extrude over parts in lower levels and there can be no gaps. When you roll a part that you cannot use you cannot take it and must pass your turn. When there are no parts in stock, you must pass until someone rolls the wave symbol. The wave washes parts out of the bridge of the active player: If he rolls a wave he rolls again, takes the resulting parts out of his bridge and puts them back into stock. Then he can rebuild his bridge with the remaining parts. If you do not have the indicated part in your bridge, nothing happens. If you are first to complete a bridge of five levels correctly, you can move over to the island, salvage the treasure and win.

In a variant all players must complete their bridges and then take them down again. You roll for parts to remove, but can only take parts that are on top and accessible.

Tropicano offers beautiful wooden components, first tactical elements and a training for spatial thinking, coupled with lots of fun and the thrill of hoping to avoid rolling the wave and its destructive forces.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 10+

Designer: not named

Artist: not named

Price: On demand

Publisher: Beleduc 2016

Web: www.beleduc.de

Genre: Dice, building

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: cn de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Wooden components

Very nice design

Variant with taking down bridges

Compares to:

Building games with dice-determined parts

Other editions:

Currently none

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