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International Toy Fair Nuremberg 2012
Internationale Spielwarenmesse Nürnberg 2012

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Abacusspiele
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Each player in turn throws two dice and places them onto the vans, or he decides to take the load of animals from one van and notes this on his pad. When he is the first to complete a collection of animals, he may cross the space and may take the 1 or 2 point bonus.
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When he takes a load that carries one or more animals of an already completed collection, he must cross the -2 penalty box for that species –but only once, so there are no additional penalties in this or any other round. The dice also may show a coin symbol; when the player has collected at least three he may neutralize the -2 penalty for one species.
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When there is a player with open boxes for only one species, the round ends and the score is tallied. Nice short game for holidays, when travelling, or introducing non players to the hobby. Particularly the graphics of the animals on the dice are very nice; the game overall has the same feel as ‘Coloretto’ and stays more close to this original than ‘Zooloretto’.
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Zooloretto Würfelspiel, Michael Schacht, Abacusspiele, 2012 - 2 to 4 players, 7 years and up, 15 minutes

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Discover Africa. As a matter of fact, the Germans were the last to grab a piece of the cake that Africa was -and is-, but all in all were very unfortunate, i.e. they never managed to completely subdue the local tribes and the trade from their colonies never became profitable. The outcome of The Great War ended this chapter for them.
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Players each play a nation that try to collect as many resources as they can. One possible action is travelling: a player plays as many cards as he wants, matching one of the symbols on each location with a card of that symbol. Starting an expedition is part of the travel action, and can be done if a player is on the starting location that matches the starting location of an expedition card in the display.
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Starting an expedition already gives a player money or an extra travel card that immediately can be used to travel even further. When a player reaches the destination of an expedition, he collects the earnings stated on the card and places it under his nation card -these score points at game end. Taking two cards is an other option, and buying treasure cards from one of the books is the third and last.

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A player actually buys the option; he still has to travel to the destination to collect the treasure, and collect the money that goes with it. These cards also score points at game end, and specific combinations of treasures additionally score bonus points.
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A special travel wild card that a player always takes back in his hand when played, makes this game very friendly, together with helper cards that can be acquired through the books.
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Africana, Michael Schacht, Abacusspiele, 2012 - 2 to 4 players, 8 years and up, 60 minutes

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Players try to match a photo card they received at the start of the game, but all animals must be in the right order. In a turn a player may change two animals that are next to each other or change one with the deck. The game ends when the deck of photo cards is depleted.

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Foto Safari, Tanja Triminek, Abacusspiele, 2012 – 2 to 4 players, 6 years and up, 20 minutes

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