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Dreck weg

Collect garbage, cash refunds

Collecting garbage is the motto of the day, you want to dispose of as many bottles and other garbage as you can. You take a marker, a savings account and a garbage bag, which is filled with given numbers of garbage and three kinds of bottles, all represented by wooden cubes of different colors. The city tiles are distributed among players, the bottle-return-machine is the starting tile. In the starting phase in turn you place one tile each until the town is complete, then you put house and marker on any unmarked tile. "There is something" cubes are placed on marked tiles. You roll and move orthogonally, you need not use all pips. On tiles with "there is something" cubes you find trash, take the "there is something" cube and draw 1-3 cubes from your bag, depending on the kind of tile; you can carry a maximum of eight tiles. On roads and paths the die yields trash from any bag or money. From bus stops you can jump to other bus stops.

Bottle cubes are swapped for money at the bottle-return-machine, the cubes go back into your bag; at thrash deposit sites you hand garbage cubes to other players and get "back-slapping" cards, which you can discard for an additional turn or one roll of the event die. The Bank gives you interest for money in the savings account, the School awards you for "there is something" cubes. When the last of those cubes is taken, each player has one more turn and then you win with most money.

Dreck weg offers a very simple mechanism with a realistic background, nicely implemented; all in all a well-made family game that enhances environmental awareness in children.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 30+

Designer: Stefan Siebert

Artist: Rautie, Porazzi Angelo

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Mücke Spiele 2013

Web: www.muecke-spiele.de

Genre: Roll, move, take, exchange

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: nein

Comments:

Furthers environmental awareness

Nice family game

Neutral edition, previously published as a promotional game

Compares to:

All roll & move games with acquisition and exchange mechanisms

Other editions:

For the town of Mönchengladbach with local references

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0