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Caracassonne Safari
Animals, rangers and water holes
Carcassonne Around the World in Africa! In savannah and around water holes, the animals of Africa are cavorting. 72 landscape tiles show savannah, animal paths, baobab trees, bushes and animals. 50 animal tiles show five types of animals, four animals arranged in a circle provide a water hole. A starting tile as big as three standard tiles is laid out, and two neutral white rangers are placed next to it. Each player draws two face-down animal tiles and displays them.
You draw a landscape tile from stock, place it with corresponding edges into the display and can then relocate a ranger or place a meeple on the animal path of the tile, if the path is empty, or begin a waterhole - this need not happen on the newly placed tile - or extend a waterhole. Beginning a hole gives you three points; expansion is only possible with an animal not yet at the hole and you score 4-5-6 points for the 2nd, 3rd or 4th animal at the hole.
When a newly placed tile triggers a scoring, you score completed paths, bushes or surrounded baobab trees. Completed paths gives you points for the number of different animals on it, completed bushes also give points for the number of different animals on them. If you place a meeple on a baobab tree, you receive two animal tiles. At the end of the game, each animal on paths or bushes owned by you gives you a point, as does each animal tile you own.
All elements from the original game of Carcassonne, enriched by enchanting details like animals to score, jeep meeples for the rangers, and elephant meeples for scoring, and of course the animal images themselves - exquisite and familiar fun to play.
Players: 2-5
Age: 7+
Time: 60+
Designer: Klaus-Jürgen Wrede
Artist: Anne Heidsiek, Andreas Resch, Christoph Tisch
Price: ca. 25 Euro
Publisher: Hans im Glück 2018
Genre: Tile placement and scoring
Users: For families
Version: de
Rules: cn cz de dk en es fi fr hu nl no se sk
In-game text: no
Comments:
Series Carcassonne Around the World
Standard game with very nice details
Few simple rule changes
(c) Image fehrmeister (BGG)
Compares to:
All other editions of Carcassonne
Other editions:
999 Games (nl), Bard Centrum Gier (pl), Devir (es), Lautapelit (dk fi no se), Mindok (cz sk), Piatnik (hu), Swan Panasia (cn), Z-Man (en fr),
Chance (pink): 2
Tactic (turquoise): 2
Strategy (blue): 1
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 0
Memory (orange): 0
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 3
Dexterity (green): 0
Action (dark green): 0