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Outback

Kanguru, Koala or platypus

New animals need to be settled into the Outback. 90 tiles for Emus, Kangaroos, Koalas, Platypuses and Monitor Lizards are in the bag, five are drawn for the jeep, which is replenished for each player at the start of his turn. You have an outback landscape as well as scoring marker and bonus tile for every type of animal. The landscape shows rows with 3-4-2-4-1 slots, marked with 1-3-4-5-6, indicating the number of identical animal symbols to place an animal tile into the row.

You roll six dice up to three times - the joker replaces every animal, but cannot be used alone - and then take animals off the Jeep to put them on the board. For instance, for 4x Koala and 3x Platypus you can a Koala in row 4 and a Platypus in row 2 and then score for newly placed animals and groups of identical animals. For a failed roll you cover a hex on the board.

If you have reached the top of the vertical scoring track, you continue scoring on the horizontal row, beginning again at 1. You should, however, try to get two animals to the horizontal scoring line, because on the vertical line you only score for the three animals furthest down, when someone has filled all slots on his landscape. Every covered hex costs you two points.

In the variant Outback Plus, you play with bonus tiles for completed rows or for all five animals of a kind on the landscape. If you want, you can also draw one of four boards for a variant in scoring covered hexes.

Must praise for the designer of this attractive game! The unusual, challenging scoring introduces quite some tactic, and of course you need luck in rolling dice and corresponding animals on the awesome 3D jeep.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Michael Kiesling

Artist: Claus Stephan, Martin Hoffmann, Sabine Kondirolli

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Huch! 2018

Web: www.hutter-trade.com

Genre: Dice, place tiles

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice Material

Sophisticated, challenging scoring

Tactic despite dice rolling

Amazing 3D jeep

Compares to:

Placement games for group formation

Other editions:

R&R Games / Huch! (en fr), Red Glove (it)

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0