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The Hare & the Tortoise

A race for five

In the third game of the series Tales & Games in the book cassette box Aesop’s fable of the race between the hare and the tortoise is transformed into a race between hare, tortoise, wolf, lamb and fox. Each player is given one card secretly for his starting bet. Then the track is randomly assembled, you can also choose the side and orientation for each tile. Now each player is dealt seven race cards and places one of them next to his starting bet card; you can choose the same animal as on the starting bet card. In each round, in your turn, you lay down one to four cards of the same animal and refill your hand. When at the end of a player’s turn exactly eight cards or four cards for the same animal have been played, the racing phase of the round begins and each animal moves in relation to the cards played, always in the order of hare, tortoise, wolf, fox and lamb. When, for instance, 1 to 4 hare cards were played, the hare moves advances two tiles. For 0-3 cards the tortoise moves forward 1 tile, and the wolf moves one tile for 1-2 cards; the fox moves as many tiles forward as there were cards played and the lamb as many tiles as cards plus one. There are special cases for each animal, too, so, for instance, the lamb stops early if it encounters a tile featuring water. When three animals have reached the finish, the bets are revealed and you score points accordingly.

The Hare & the Tortoise is a very good family game that also features simplified rules for younger children. The components are very pretty and lovingly designed and there is enough tactic in the game for it to remain interesting for yet another game.

Players: 2-5

Age: 7+

Time: 20+

Designer: Gun-Hee (Gary) Kim

Artist: Mathieu Leyssenne

Price: ca. 23 Euro

Publisher: Iello / Purple Brain 2014

Web: www.iello.fr

Genre: Racing, fairy tales

Users: For families

Version: en

Rules: en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Series: Tales & Games

Marvelous components

Rules variant for younger children

Well-working family game

High replay value

Compares to:

Race games with cards, topic-wise all games of this series

Other editions:

Asterion Press, Lex Games, Piece Craft

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 3

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0