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Rock the Bock!

Limited festival Tickets

Run on tickets! Stag, cow, horse, sheep and pig want to get tickets for the festival, but available tickets for each animal type and the mixed VIP zone are limited.

3, 4, 5 or 6 players are dealt 13, 12, 10 or 8 cards from the stack prepared for the number of players, set one or two cards aside and take one special card each of Black Market, Porta-Potty and VIP Pass. The first placement card is turned up.

All play one face-down animal simultaneously – no special cards yet! – and reveal them. Then all play two more cards - now special cards are possible, too – and reveal them and score them separately for animal types and VIP zone. Combinations of special cards or special card + animal card provide more tickets for the type of animal or for VIPs or promote a type of animal to VIP status. When there are enough tickets for the total of an animal played by all, you put two animals openly on your festival stack if you played most cards, or one card face-down if you played the second-most cards. If there are not enough tickets for an animal on the placement cards, the player who played most of those animals takes back all of them; if there are still too few tickets, the player with the now most animals takes them back, and so on, until there are enough tickets for remaining animals.

If someone has three or less animal cards in hand, you score open-faced animals in you stack with their value and face-down ones with 2 points. After three such round scorings you win with most points.

A pretty game with a nice mix of luck in cards received and clever use of the special cards; after one or two trial games you know exactly what to do!

Players: 3-6

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Christwart Conrad

Artist: Marcin Piwowarski

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Zoch Verlag 2018

Web: www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre: Cards, collecting

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very attractive design

Needs one or two introductory games

Good mix of chance and tactics

Compares to:

Card games with slot limitations

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0