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Ratnaraj

The Puzzling paths of Ratnaraj were a gift from the Queen to the King who loves puzzles and jewels. The twelve-sided game board shows 15 lines that connect the 19 positions on the board, but not all positions are connected directly to all other position. Between the positions there are flappable arrows indicating the path to the next position. At the start of a game you turn over the empty board on its back side once and turn it back over again. This makes the arrows fall into random positions so that they determine the directions for the current game. Then you choose a starting position, place Jewel #1 there and follow the arrows to place pieces #2 to #19 in correct order. You cannot jump over or cross numbers already in place, but there are positions from which you have a choice which path to follow, sometimes indicated by arrows, sometimes not. You can play alone or in a group. There are 32768 possible arrow positions and in 10% of them you can place 17 or 18 pieces. For a simple game you join edge points with pieces #1 to #6, you follow the arrows on the inner lines.

If you want to play in a group of several players, you choose a time frame. Then each player tries, within this time frame, to achieve the highest score. The score for a player is always equal to the number of the jewel that he was able to place as his last.

Ratnaraj provides elegant, attractive puzzling fun, for solitaire play or competitive play, and the rules even give a ranking: Placement of 13-14 jewels is good, 15-16 is considered to be very good, 17-18 jewels are an excellent result and if you place all 19 you may call yourself a genius.

Players: 1+

Age: 8+

Time: 10+

Designer: Ivan Moskovich

Artist: Anoka Designstudio

Price: ca. 18 Euro

Publisher: HCM Kinzel 2015

Web: www.hcm-kinzel.eu

Genre: Logic puzzle

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very attractive design

Very short and simple rules

Sophisticated fun with logic

Compares to:

Logic puzzles with adhering to a sequence

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