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Just in Time

Fast and correct placements

There was Fits and then there was Bits and now we meet those geometric pieces made up from up to five small squares in Just in Time! 4x10 placement boards show different areas featuring numbers One to Five; 27 task cards show three, four or five playing pieces. Each player has such a set of placement boards and pieces of his color, the square extra piece 2x2 is set aside and the 1-square scoring piece goes to position 0 on the scoring track. The task cards are sorted by number. You play 10 rounds; in each round you choose one placement board; from the second round on the one last on the scoring track chooses. Then all take this board and place it symbol up and the first card from the stack corresponding to the number on the placement boards is turned up. All take the pieces depicted on this card and try to fill the area on their board so that no piece exceeds the border and as many number spots as possible are left uncovered. When you are done you name the total of visible numbers; all others now have the period equal to the run-time of the timer to place their pieces Just in Time and to name the total, but they cannot name a total that has already been named. If you could place all pieces before the time is up you move your scoring piece forward accordingly. After 10 such rounds you win with the highest score. If you are more than 10 points behind the leader you can replace one piece with your extra 2x2 piece in the next round.

Abstract, good, plays well and fast, an advantageous continuation for the mechanisms known from games like Ubongo and Co, the ban on equal number is quite some challenge!

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Günter Burkhardt

Artist: studio elfenbein

Price: ca. 31 Euro

Publisher: Ravensburger 2013

Web: www.ravensburger.de

Genre: Abstract placement game

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Standard basic mechanisms

Nicely varied, for instance with number results and ban of identical results

Attractive components

Includes solo version

Compares to:

Ubongo, Bits, Fits and other such placement games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 0