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The last one gets bit!

2010 Mayday Games presented a game called Get Bit! At Essen, now this game has been released by Bombyx and is therefore presented again:

Swimmers in the water, chased by the shark, but you need not be faster than the shark, just faster than the other swimmers! Each player has a swimmer, meant to be a pirate but resembling a robot, and 7 cards in a six-player game. Swimmers are laid out in a random row, at the end of the row you place the shark. You play in rounds; each round comprises playing cards, move swimmers and get bit.

Each player chooses a card and all are revealed simultaneously: All swimmers with the same number on the card played for them are not moved. All other swimmers are moved to the front of the line in ascending order of the cards played for them. In the first round there is no being bitten, but in the following turns the swimmer who is last in line after all swimmers have been moved, loses one limb. If this was his last limb, he goes out of the game, otherwise he moves to the front of the line and his owner picks up again all cards played so far. Otherwise, you take the cards back when all but one have been played. With two players left in the game the player owning the swimmer in front wins the game.

This is a position game with a satirical touch, featuring robot-like figurines, in which the only important thing is to choose a card that nobody else has chosen, so that you can go to the front and are not last in line and bitten, which gets difficult with 6 players. Rarely the oh-we-do-not-move-as-we-chose-identically mechanism was as drastically illustrated as here with swimmers losing limbs.

Players: 3-6

Age: 7+

Time: 20+

Designer: Dave Chalker

Artist: Xavier Collette, Vincent Poulard

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: Bombyx 2013

Web: www.studiobombyx.com

Genre: Position game with cards

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition

First edition Robot Martini 2007

Satirical touch, drastically illustrated

All the same a nice family game

Cute robot pieces

Compares to:

Get Bit!, position games with cancelling of identical values

Other editions:

Get Bit, Mayday Games, USA; Croc! Bombyx, France

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0