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Lakota

Find a gap or build a bridge

Rules and mechanism of this game can be described in one sentence: Place your own stock of sticks in a way that you are the first to get rid of all your sticks. Depending on the number of players you are given between 30 and 10 sticks. In your turn you either place a stick horizontally directly onto the round board – you should try to find as big as possible a gap for it - or you place the stick as a bridge onto two neighboring sticks that do not yet carry a stick and are placed at the necessary distance. You may only use one hand to place a stick and may turn the board for a better view, but be careful and do not cause a collapse! If you build a bridge you have another turn and may place another stick or build another bridge. You should try – when placing a stick – not to offer opportunities for building bridges to the following players. But you cannot pass your turn: If you cannot build a bridge or have another turn after building a bridge you must place a stick, even if you make it possible for the next player to build a bridge. You can build up to any number of levels, bridges must be placed on sticks in the same level, and you cannot build a slanted bridge. One Stick can only touch two other sticks and one stick can only be the basis for one other stick. If you cause a collapse you must take all sticks that fell and get one more stick from your right neighbor.

Lakota is an elegant, sophisticated game, but not at all simple – you must try and make use of every opportunity to build a bridge in order to get rid of at least two sticks in a turn! A sense of proportion is essential!

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Philippe Proux

Artist: Karl-Otto Homes

Price: ca. 23 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2012

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Building and placement game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very simple rules

Elegant, simple components

Good family game

Trains estimation of distances

Compares to:

Jenga, Kapla and other building games on several levels

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 0