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Drops

eight drops drown the oasis

A surprising newcomer appeared at Spiel 17 at Essen - Game Key, the first publisher from Saudi Arabia at Spiel presented a card game on the topic of water in oases. The water, however is not life-saving, on the contrary, eight water drops drown / eliminate your oasis and you from the game. This gives you the aim of the game - be the last one in play to win.

Each player collects drops, represented by cards, in his oasis = display on the table. Those drops are then transferred into oases of other players. In your turn, you draw one card and may play maximum two cards, and there is a limit of eight cards in hand.

A card that you play has the effect of its symbols; the symbols cause changes for cards in hand and in oases - Drop: place it to the left or right - Dropper: take a drop from an oasis - Ant: transfer a drop from one oasis to another - Ice block: Protects you against drops for one round or forces another player to pass his turn - Bubble: cancels any action card - Mirror: pick up the previously played card - Sun: put one drop each from the oasis of one player into the oasis of all other players - Bucket: discard half of your drops - Rain: take a drop from each oasis - Double: draw two cards or double the effects of Ants, Dropper, Rain or Sun - Stinky Drop: put this card to the left or right like a drop card, but it is worth four drops!

If you drown, you show your cards to the player who eliminated you; he selects one card and you then put one card into the oasis of each player still in the game.

A simple family game, quickly played and not always easily to keep track of, but nice!

Players: 3-5

Age: 10+

Time: 15+

Designer: Abdulaziz Balm

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Game Key 2017

Web: https://twitter.com/drops_ar

Genre: Cards, parameter limit

Users: For families

Version: en

Rules: ar en

In-game text: no

Comments:

First game from Saudi Arabia at Spiel Essen

Production quality not yet at optimum

Simple rules

Rules very concisely written

Compares to:

Card games with ousting at parameter maximum

Other editions:

Game Key (ar)

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 4

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0