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Avanti

Earn MONEY WITH DELIVERIES

Players represent delivery services, dropping goods, earning money and having only one goal: To reach the island of their dreams. To that purpose you play several delivery tours. The start and finish of a tour is determined by random placement of an event marker, and then car movement alternates with earning money, at the end of the tour the most successful delivery services advance on the island path.

To move a car each player places a triangular power card with the number he wants to use for movement pointing at the board. If you choose a 1, 2 or 3, you can draw a card at the end of your movement. The first moves round is started by the winner of the previous one, the next ones always by the car in last position. In your turn you reveal your card and move. If the move ends on an occupied space you repeat the move until you reach an empty spot. When all cards have been moved, the owner of the leading car is paid money by the other players: he is paid the amount printed next to each car on the board. If you cannot pay you must earn money by moving backwards on the island path. Any balance resulting from not being able to move further back is paid for by the bank. If a car reaches the event marker, or if nobody can or wants to play a power card or if only the leading player has power cards left, the player in the lead advances 3 spaces on the island path, the one in 2^nd place 2 steps and the one in 3^rd place 1 step.

Avanti is a simple movement game and a nice family game, a bit spiced up by the power cards, the choice between moving fewer steps and draw cards or move further, and the cost factor involved.

Players: 3-5

Age: 10+

Duration: 60+

Designer: Heinz Meister

Artist: Victor Boden

Price: ca. 35 Euro

Publisher: Zoch 2011

Web: www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre: Car race game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Standard mechanisms attractively combined * nice topic * very pretty car figurines

Compares to :

Atlantis for turn end on a free spot, Cartagena for moving backwards to get resources

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance: 0

Tactic: 3

Strategy: 0

Creativity: 0

Knowledge: 0

Memory: 0

Communication: 0

Interaction: 3

Dexterity: 0

Action: 0