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Travel BLOG

EuropE And USA

(Grenzenlos)

Travel Blog is a fast game on the topic of travelling. Players are travel bloggers reporting on new holiday destinations. The actual game is about traveling expenses, which you spend when crossing borders. You choose a map and should take not of which countries do have an overseas connection for the purpose of the game. Aim of the game is to choose a destination country faster than your opponents. Seven destinations and a starting country  are laid out, and you need to choose one of the destinations quickly, with the purpose of reaching it with as few border crossings as possible. How many borders do you cross when you travel from France to Russia? Are there more or less than in a journey from Norway to Turkey? You pay 10 Euros for each crossed border, pay a penalty if you choose a country adjacent to the starting country and can avoid choosing a country when you decide to pay a lump sum of 40 Euros for the round. If your marker ends up on top of another because of seeral players making the same choice you pay a penalty, too. Depending on the current round of the game you must choose starting and / or destination countries from different displays. You must place your marker using one hand only and cannot retract your decision. Lacking knowledge in geography can be balanced by intuition and quick decisions. The facts given to more than a 100 countries are a bonus and not part of the actual game.

Travel Blog is an unusual game, which is fun all the same, despite some irritation when you forget that England and Iceland are adjacent in this game, but Ireland and England are not!

Spieler         : 2-6

Alter            : ages 8 and up

Dauer           : ca. 30 min

Autor           : Vlaada Chvatil

Grafik          : David Cochard, Milan Vavron, Radim Pech, Filip Murmak, Ivana Lososova

Titel            : Grenzenlos

Preis            : ca. 20,00 Euro

Verlag          : CGE / Heidelberger 2010

                     www.heidelbaer.de

Genre                    : Game of geography and travel

Zielgruppe             : For families

Mechanismen         : Choose route crossing fewest borders

Kommentar:

Unusual mechanism

Errors are part of the game

A detour can sometimes be profitable

Vergleichbar:

First game of this kind

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