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COPA

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Pit-and-pebble games - one of the old, classic game mechanisms: You distribute pebbles, beads or beans in bowls until the victory condition is met. COPA is a game collection based on this mechanism, all games use 18 wooden bowls and a handful of beans.

Kala for 2 players, ages 10+: Each player moves his own bowl across the 4x4 grid of bowls. You place four beans into individual bowls, beginning in your own bowl, then you put your bowl onto the bowl where you placed the 4^th bean. If you reach a bowl with beans with your 4^th bean, you take the beans. Four or more beans in your own bowl earn you an extra turn, five beans in a bowl are returned to the bank. When the bank has less than four beans you win with most beans.

In Ronda for 2-5 players, ages 7+, you want to be rid of your beans: If you uncover the same amount of beans under two bowls you can add one of your beans to one bowl and can then turn up another bowl, etc. In Hopper for 2-5 players, ages 7+, you snip beans into bowls from the edge of the table. If you snip the 4^th bean into a bowl, you take the bowl, if you have four bowls, you win the game.

In Da Capo, a bluff game by Fred Horn for 2-5 players, ages 8+, you secretly bid 1-5 beans; if yours is the highest bid you can put your beans into the first bowl of the line, and all other beans bid are discarded. If you reach the final bowl you win. If you are out of beans, you are out of the game. Should all go out, you win, if you got furthest in your line of bowls.

An elegant, abstract game featuring cleverly varied standard mechanisms - a marvelous collection for the whole family; the most challenging game in it is Kala, using sophisticated tactical elements.

Players: 2-5

Age: 7+

Time: 10+

Designer: Steffen Mühlhäuser, Fred Horn, Daniel Krieg

Artist: Bernhard Kümmelmann

Price: ca. 35 Euro

Publisher: Steffen Spiele 2013

Web: www.steffen-spiele.de

Genre: Game collection

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Elegant, classy components

Four different games using the same components

Different numbers of players in each game

Attractive, well-made collection, celebrating 10 years of Steffen Spiele

Compares to:

All variants of Hus, Mancala or Awale for components and mechanism of distributing pieces

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 2