Presentation

Dam it!

Beavers and tree logs

Dam-building competition - to succeed you need lots of different different tree logs and as little garbage as possible. 15 Dam cards are sorted by building costs and - for each building cost - by victory point value and laid out stacked. 66 River cards comprise 42 Tree cards (6x7 kinds), 12 Garbage Disposal cards and 12 Garbage cards and are shuffled and stacked face-down, four cards are laid out, and you have four stepping stones.

The active player selects one of two options for his action: Take a River card or build a Dam. To Take a River card, you select a card - with or without stepping stones -from the display: the first card in the row is free; if you want to take a card further back in the row, you must put a stepping stone on each of the previous cards. Thus, if you want to take a card from the stack, you must place four stepping stones. Tree cards and Garbage Disposal cards you take up, Garbage cards are neutralized by a Beaver Garbage Disposal card or you put it on your Dam stack for penalty points.

Tu Build a Dam, you play tree cards from your hand, maybe together with a Garbage Disposal card for a Joker; the tree cards must all be different! For a correct combination you take the top Dam card from the stack corresponding in value to the value total of the tree cards. If you cannot replenish the river or if someone takes the last Dam card. You win with most points from Dams and stepping stones minus Garbage cards.

A very nice family game with cute illustrations and an attractive and a - thanks to Garbage and Garbage Disposal - moderately realistic topic; the mechanisms are standard, and the rules are simple.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: ca. 20 min

Designer: Graeme Jahms

Artist: Thomas Hussung

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: HUCH! 2018

Web: www.hutter-trade.com

Genre: Set collecting

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simple rules

Good standard mechanisms

Cute illustrations

Topic wittily interpreted

Compares to:

Set collecting games

Other editions:

Currently none

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