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UBONGO

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The game features 3 stacks of cards, 36 cards in each stack. One stack is used for 2 of 6 rounds in the game; the stacks are marked with 1, 3, and 5 on the white fronts and with 2, 4 and 5 on the black backs. Each player is dealt 9 cards from the current stack and plays with the white side in the first round and the black side in the second round. When you have received your cards and play totally on your own as in Ubongo: At a starting signal you place 7 of 9 cards as fast as you can according to the rules; you must place each card but the first one in a way that tow and only two symbols on one card border the same two symbols on the other card, so that you end up with two pairs of symbols. To achieve this you can turn the cards and can also create branches in the line of cards. But you may not place tow cards showing two pairs and then a third symbol bordering a third symbol on the other card, regardless if the same or a different one- that means cards must always be placed staggered. Cards do not have to be placed in any order, so you can rearrange the sequence, take cards back in hand, etc. When you are done you call “Ubongo” and score 10 points, the other players score the number of cards they could place. But if only one card in the display is wrong you do not score at all. After six rounds you win with the most points.

A mechanism completely different from Ubongo but using the familiar shapes used in Ubongo! Instead of aligning the symbols you now align the cards which as a matter of course results in different alignments of the symbols. As fascinating and as challenging as Ubongo!

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Grzegorz Rejchtman

Artist: Nicolas Neubauer

Price: ca. 7 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2011

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Card placement game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Fits well into the Ubongo range of games * completely different mechanics using the shapes from Ubongo

Compares to:

Fits, Bits and other placement games with shapes

Other editions:

University Games, The Netherlands

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

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Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 0