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Japanischer Garten

Japanese gardens are very hard to create as there are certain basic rules and templates to adhere to. This collection of puzzles features this topic and provides puzzles for fifty gardens in five different levels of difficulty.

Each puzzle features a board showing different numbers of empty squares. Those empty squares have path ends, symbols and numbers at their edges. You choose a puzzle and take the board and all seven garden tiles. Each empty square on the puzzle board must be filled with a garden tile in a way that complies with all specifications for the board and square. The tiles can be rotated any way. Specifications are: Pairs of symbols of the same color must be connected by a path. For path ends with a number in a brown case the path must lead over that number of bridges. For path ends with a number on green the path must touch as many different garden tiles – should a path cross a tile several times the square is counted as many times as the path crosses it. For the hexagon symbol the path must go past the pagoda and the path marked with a Yin-Yang symbol must end at that symbol. In some puzzles tiles have already been added, that is, depicted on the board. You are meant to solve the 50 puzzles in ascending order of their number, because they come in five different levels of difficulty. The instructions provide one clue for each puzzle and a separate booklet the solutions for all puzzles.

Very well-made and visually beautiful solitaire, brain jogging at its best; the basic mechanism of such puzzles is well-known, the allure here is in the implementation, visually and as regards to topic.

Players: 1

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Reiner Knizia

Artist: Andreas Resch, Hans-Georg Schneider

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2015

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Logic, tile placement

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Standard basic mechanism

Interesting puzzles

Pretty topic

Very attractive graphic design

Compares to:

Other logic puzzles with tile placement

Other editions:

Currently none

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