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Round the World

from Nairobi to Asia

We are travel agents and want to assemble attractive round trips. 120 cards show a starting town and a destination continent, color coded by continents. Depending on the number of players, 60, 90 or 120 cards are used; you take your 30 cards as a face-down stack in hand. At the start of a round, all players lay out their top card.  Afterwards, all players play simultaneously and draw the current top card of their face-down stack to resolve one of the options, a card must always be placed in direction of the arrow/plane: 1. Place the card to begin a new trip. 2. Expand one of your own trips - you put the card at either end, adjacent cases must have the same color, and you pick up the card at the other end of the row. 3. Expand the trip of another player in the same way, add a card to one end and pick up the card at the other end. 4. You put the card at the bottom of your stack.

Whenever a trip comprises minimum three cards and showing the same color at both ends, for the first starting town and the last destination continent, it must be booked: You check for correct color sequence and then stack the row face-down on the table. When a five-minute timer has run down, you score your booked trips - one point per card, two points for a card with a tourist attraction - minus remaining cards in un-booked trips and in hand; after two such rounds you win with most points.

Sounds like a hectic game, but is only a quick one, because in this very attractive placement game you must keep an eye on the trips of other players to pick up a card that you need for your on trip at the right moment. Super family fun!

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Doris und Daniel Danzer

Art: Fiore GmbH

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2018

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Form and take rows

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very attractive mechanism

Fast, but not hectic

Picking-up-card mechanism is very tactic

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Compares to:

Row forming, set collecting

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0