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Star Wars Ubongo

Das Erwachen der Macht

Two classics in their category have found each other, Star Wars for a topic and Ubongo providing the mechanism. Characters from the film „Das Erwachen der Macht“ - among them Rey, BB-8, Chewbacca, Finn, Peo, Kylo Ren, or Captain Phasma -  are depicted on the 12 tiles which every player receives for a game; each of those 12 parts has a different shape and always consists of an arrangement of four, five or six squares.

At the start of the game players decide if they want to play the easy side of the puzzle boards using three tiles, or the more difficult side of the puzzle boards, using four tiles each. At the start of the round you receive such a puzzle board; then a die is rolled to decide if you use the Light or the Dark Side of the Force to solve the puzzle. You select the parts depicted next to the dice symbol on the puzzle board and fill the are with them as quickly as you can; tiles can be rotated or turned over. To solve the puzzle correctly you must fill the are completely, without gab and without parts overreaching the area. Whoever finishes first, advances his space ship on the scoring board by as many steps as there are players, each of the subsequently finishing players moves one step less. If nobody finishes within the runtime of the timer, the timer is turned over again. After seven rounds, you win in first position on the scoring board. In a variant, you remove two tiles from your set and can then use all remaining parts. You must, however, use them in a way that at least one tile shows the Light Side and one the Dark side of the Force.

Ubongo is good, Star Wars is good, Star Wars Ubongo is excellent!

Players: 1-4

Age: 8+

Time: 25+

Designer: Grzegorz Rejchtman

Artist: Nicolas Neubauer

Price: ca. 33 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2015

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Tile placement, license topic

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Familiar basic mechanism

Nice, theme-related details

Especially suited to Star Wars fans

Compares to:

All editions of Ubongo

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0