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Tricky Tracks

Connect stations of the same color

Track placement for points and with competition from other players! In your turn you place track and score for connections formed.

Four of six starting tiles are placed randomly on the four empty squares of the board. Each player holds nine tiles in a face-down stack; two each for the station colors blue/green and red/yellow, one with all four stations and four track tiles without stations. Each player always has two tiles in hand. In your turn you place one tile from your hand on one of the four middle squares on the board; the tile can be rotated any way, but cannot be placed on a completely identical tile.

Then you check, if one or more connections between two stations of the same color run across the tile just placed. If there are such connections, you score one point per tile in the track and advance the marker in the corresponding color. If there are several tracks connecting two stations of the same color, you can only score one of them and chose which one to score. At the end of the turn you draw one tile from your stack. You should try to score as many colors as possible with each tile, because after the ninth tile you you win when your own marker in last place is the one among all players' markers in last place that marks the highest score.

Tricky Tracks, but not too tricky - you must ponder a bit, but nearly always you can find a spot to achieve a good score. But you might have to keep thinking time to a limit because the fun goes down with too much down-time. The scoring mechanism of the best marker in last place is still a very good one and makes you keep an eye on all colors!

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 40+

Designer: Jordi Gené, Gregorio Morales

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 17 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2014

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: Tile placement, connections

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: cz de fr it hu nl pl sk

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simple rules

Attractive components

Sophisticated scoring mechanism

Compares to:

All placement games for connections, Ingenious for scoring mechanism

Other editions:

Currently none

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