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Zwoggel

Three identical Zwoggels - you lost!

The game features 64 tiles, showing red and green creatures, called Zwoggels. Aim of the game is to never uncover three Zwoggels of the same color in a turn. All tiles are shuffled face-down; four of them are randomly and face-down drawn and laid out face-down in a square; the rest of the tiles is stacked face down, in several stacks for general stock.

Each player in turn has always the same identical turn - he turns over two face-down tiles in the display - the remain face-up for the rest of the game - and then draws three tiles from any stacks, looks at them and places them into the display,  horizontally, vertically or diagonally, adjacent to tiles already on display - regardless if they are face-up or face-down. You can try to set up traps for other players - provided that you memorize the tiles you place very, very well, as not to fall into those traps yourself, because - if you reveal three Zwoggels of the same color in your turn, you must take the last tile that you revealed, the two previous one remain in the display.

If you have to take your third Zwoggel, regardless of its color, you have lost the game in a game of two players. In a game of three or four players, you are out of the game, if you take your third Zwoggel, and the winner will be the player who is the last one in play. When all tiles have been used before someone has won the game, each player in his turn only reveals one tile until there is a winner.

Simple rules, simple mechanism - setting traps can work, but not necessarily so; revealing and drawing are mostly chance-driven. All the same, a nice filler or simple family game.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Inon Kohn

Artist: Steffen Mühlhäuser, Bernd Kümmelmann

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: Steffen Spiele 2018

Web: www.steffen-spiele.de

Genre: Tile placement, memo

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en + he

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition of Yengo

Simple mechanism

Very chance-dependent

Nice for a filler game

Compares to:

Memo / Revealing games with a limit

Other editions:

Foxmind (en he)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0