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Baobab

Throw birds, drop leopard

Baobab is the local name for the well-known African tree with its broad treetop, and such a tree must be formed with all its different inhabitants and visitors. The game features 110 cards showing branches, flowers, monkeys, leopards, snakes, bats, bees, birds and chameleons - all cards are distributed evenly among players and stacked face down. In your turn you draw three cards from your stack and try to place up to three of them on the tree according to the rules - there is a different rule for each kind of card. Branches can be placed as you like; flowers must stick out of the treetop with one corner, monkeys with two corners. Bird cards are thrown like a Frisbee, bats must be placed with your eyes closed, snakes are slid between two cards that one corner sticks out of the treetop; chameleons are used like the card that was placed immediately before the chameleon. Bees are very tricky, you can only place a branch or flower card directly on top of a bee - but should the tree top be already wide enough you can place another card next to the bee or slide a snake underneath. When cards drop off the tree while you try to place a card you must take them and set them aside separately, they earn you one penalty point each at the end. If you are out of cards you end the game, all count their cards they had to take and cards left in the stack, and you win with the lowest total.

Baobab is tremendous fun with simple means, challenging but well-working! The trunk of the tree is stable, the cards just slithery enough to make you hold your breath and it is great if you can answer to a bee with a snake!

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Joseph Maria Allué

Artist: arteffekt.at

Price: ca. 11 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2012

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: Dexterity game with cards

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de fr hu

In-game text: no

Comments:

Enchanting topic and implementation

Fantastic components

Stable enough for younger children

Challenging but not impossible

Short, simple rules

Compares to:

Dexterity games using cards, e.g. Card castle

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3