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Mondriaan 2020

Red to red, blue to blue, yellow to yellow

Piet Mondriaan was a Dutch painter and is famous for his abstract compositions; in the Sixties of the previous century his geometric patterns have even created a style in ladies fashions, mostly in black and white! Mondriaan 2020 is an abstract placement game based on the work of Mondriaan: The game comprises 23 tiles, one red and one yellow square and 21 squares showing all possible combinations of red, blue and yellow with one color in each corner. One player is given the yellow square, he is the starting player, and the other player takes the red square. Then each player draws ten tiles from the face-down stock and turns them over; the last remaining tile is placed for a starting tile. In your turn you place a tile next to one or more others already in place, different colors may not be placed next to each other. When you cannot place a tile in your turn you must choose one of your tiles and discard it.

When you have placed a tile you score each color that you added to the display so that it continues a color area; for each such color area you score the number of points equal to the number of tiles in the area; the newly placed tile is not counted!

After 11 turns for each player you win with the highest total score.

Small, neat and abstract - if you like such games you will like Mondriaan 2020 and have fun with it; in any case the very colorful and well-working placement game is a nice addition to the genre of abstract games for Two; the resulting patterns are pretty, too, and easily counted for scoring. A nice first excursion by Corné van Moorsel into abstract territory!

Players: 2

Age: 8+

Time: 15+

Designer: Corné van Moorsel

Artist: Roland MacDonald

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Cwali 2011

Web: www.cwali.nl

Genre: Abstract placement game

Users: For families

Special: 2 players

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Handy box size

Very simple rules

Abstract 2-player game

Compares to:

Ingenious and other placement games with color area scoring

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

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