Ubongo

Årets spel 2003 German Games Award 2005: 4th place Game of the Year 2005: Games Hit ( family games) International Gamers Award 2005: Finalist Multiplayer

Ubongo is a board game of the Polish-born author Grzegorz Rejchtman games. It appeared in 2003 at the Swedish game company Kärnan as Pyramidens Portar and received the Swedish Games Price Årets spel 2003. The game was laid in 2005 in Germany of the cosmos as Ubongo 2005 it reached 4th place at the German game prize and was among the finalists of the International Gamers Award.

The game for 2-4 players, ages 8 and takes about 20-30 minutes and is a Pentamino variant, which is reminiscent of a combination of Tetris and Tangram. For children and beginners there is a simpler version with fewer parts. The name comes from the Swahili word meaning " brain " or " intelligence".

Subject and equipment

The cardboard cards with the specification and supply board with the jewels are decorated in rich earth tones on black and red background, the clear motives remember the name according to African art. The serving as prices jewels are made ​​of colored plastic.

Game parts

Jewelery

Game play

The game contains 36 laying boards, with one side of which the normal version with a large area and four parts will be played. On the back of the simpler version is reprinted for only three parts. Each player receives a plaque and a die to determine which is to find the six guide - ways on this board. The player must now look for the given color-coded parts from his store and fill in the requested irregular shape on the map with them. An hourglass limits the time to think and try.

All that will be ready in time, in the order of the solution have a choice and two jewels must follow certain rules to take an offer from the board. For the next round of new cards will be issued and diced again.

The winner is the player with the most same color jewels at the end of the game.

Variants

Ubongo Mini

In February 2007, appeared at Kosmos Ubongo Mini.

Ubongo extremely

Since autumn 2007 a ​​new variant named Ubongo is extremely commercially. The difference to the normal Ubongo are laying panel and the fixing parts that are not composed of squares, but of hexagons. The rest of the game concept is the same: Players move a colored tile from a bag; each player takes three or four fixing parts, which correspond to the color and are recorded on the guide table, and must cover completely the honeycomb surface on the panel. A small change, there are also points in the system: Nine blue (3 points ) and nine brown (1 point ) Precious stones are placed face up. The player who first has finished, a blue gemstone in the open and can pick up a random from the bag takes (green: 3 points - Red: 4 points) and supplemented his stock. The second player will be ready within the sand clock, gets the open brown gemstone and also randomly draws from the bag. The third and fourth player getting ready draws only from the bag. Manages only one or none within the time (or the second sand time) so wander the remaining open gems in the bag. This leaves after every game always the same number of blue and brown stones, which also show the remaining rounds. To Ubongo extremely a trip version under the name Ubongo is extremely appeared mini.

Ubongo - The Duel

The duel - In February 2008, the two-person game Ubongo appeared.

Ubongo 3 -D

A variant of the game in three dimensions was released in October 2009.

Ubongo The Card Game

In the card game version of the game you have to Ubongo cards according to specific rules laid on each other like dominoes.

Target group

Tactics and consideration do not matter, exercise facilitates finding the combinations. The gameplay is easy to learn or of Tetris and the like already known. Ubongo is to be regarded as a family game and suitable for short rounds.

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