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Brick Party

brick on brick quickly!

Racing to have built first! The game comprises four sets of nine bricks, 144 shape cards with 36x 5, 6, 7 and 8 as well as 10 pints and 10 rules cards.

The building bricks are laid out, the point cards are sorted and stacked, the rules cards stacked face-down. You have a hand of 2 shape cards per value.

At the start of the round a rules card is revealed, e.g. “use at least one piece per color” and then you choose a teammate. In case of an uneven number of players the Leader does not participate. The Architect of a team is the explainer and chooses one of his shape cards; on a signal all architects begin to explain to their builders what the need to build. The number of necessary bricks = card value cannot be named and the architect cannot touch a brick, but can point to it. When an architect deems the team construct to be correct, the other teams have a timer’s run time to complete their construct. Then all put the construct down on the card; if they correspond architect and builder receive cards for points.

In the family version 2-4 players play each on their own and without rule cards. Each player uses one set of bricks, a shape card is revealed and all construct this shape; if you are done first, you turn over the timer and the others have that amount of time to finish building. Whoever build correctly, gets an unused shape card of the same value, the first one also the revealed points card.

Make ‘n’ Break for experienced players – some of the shapes are awfully hard to separate into individual bricks in your mind, and then you have to describe that! Challenge accepted, lots of fun were won!

Players: 4-9

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Luca Bellini

Artist: Erika Signini, Scribabs

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Heidelberger Spieleverlag 2015

Web: www.heidelbaer.de

Genre: Build, communicate information

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de en fr it pl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Two version of very different levels of difficulty

Easy basic rules

Simple scoring system

The team version is very challenging, but lots of fun

Compares to:

Make ‘n’ Break and other constructing games

Other editions:

Italian - Post Scriptum; English - Renegade Studios; French - Iello; Polish - Black Monk; all together with Post Scriptum

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 1