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Florancala

Mancala iN a FLOWER

Mancala, Bao, Hus, Awale, Owareh, whatever they may be called, the pit games or bean games are one of the oldest and most widely spread game varieties.

Florancala offers an unusual version of the game on a very beautiful version of the board, the pits are not arranged in rows, but in the shape of a flower.

As a preparation of the game you place four semi-precious stones into each of the 12 petals of the flower and each player takes the colored wooden balls of a color, the inner circle of small round pits is empty at the start. In each turn you take the stones out of one petal and distribute them clockwise or counterclockwise one by one into the following petals. You may start you move only on a free or one of those petals that are reserved for you. If you start the move in a free petal, you place one of your colored balls into the inner pit and thus reserve the petal for you. When you drop the last stone of a turn into a petal that is not you own and there are 2 or 3 stones in the petal, you take them all. Then you look back to the next petal on opposite direction of your move, if in the petal next to the now empty petal there are again 2 or 3 stones, you can take them, too, and so on until you reach one of your own petals or one with a number of stones different from 2 or 3. When there is a total of 5 or less stones left and no more stones can be taken, the winner is the player with the most stones.

Florancala is an elegant, beautiful, fast version of the game, a little less abstract due to the color marking, the reserving of petals is a fascinating new mechanism for the game.

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 6+

Dauer           : ca. 20 min

Autor           : Sjaak Griffioen

Grafik          : not cited

Titel            : ident

Preis            : ca. 57 Euro

Verlag          : Gerhards Spiel und Design 2010

www.spiel-und-design.eu

Genre                    : Setz- und Sammelspiel

Zielgruppe             : Für Familien

Sprache        : de

Regeln         : de

Text im Spiel : no

Kommentar:

Very beautiful components

Standard basic mechanism

Fantastic new version

Vergleichbar:

Hus, Bao, Mancala – all versions of the bean game

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