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Arbra Kadabra

€21.23 EUR
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Description
Designer Liesbeth Bos
Publisher MJ Games
Players 2-4
Playtime 10-20 mins
Suggested Age 7 and up

You are in the enchanted forest, and you must leave before night. The magic tree stands in the middle of the forest. It is a multi-colored tree that you may grow or shrink, and you must overcome its challenge to escape. Specifically, you have to insert all your wooden pieces in the tree trunk and capture a precise number of your opponents' trunk pieces. Be smart and skilled, and you will succeed. Otherwise, you will turn into a mushroom and spend one thousand years near the tree with all the ones who missed before you!

All players start Arbra Kadabra with ten wooden trunk pieces in your color, with the die (showing 1/1/2/2/3/3) and the base of the tree in the center of the table. On a turn, you roll the die, then either add a number of pieces to the tree or remove a number of pieces to the tree equal to the number that you rolled. (If the tree is too short to take pieces, then you must add them.)

When you add pieces to the tree, you must add pieces of your own color first. Once you have no more pieces of your color, you can instead place pieces of other players' colors. Why would you have pieces of their color? Two reasons: (1) When you remove pieces from the tree, you must take them from the top down; you can't remove pieces from the center of the tree. (2) If the tree collapses on your turn, then you must take all of the pieces that fell and add them to your collection.

What are you trying to do with all this building and unbuilding? To win the game, you must have none of your own pieces in front of you. In addition, you must have exactly four of the opponent's pieces in a two-player game, exactly three of each opponent's pieces in a three-player game, or exactly two of each opponent's pieces in a four-player game. Do this first, and you win!

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Chris Cormier
Lets build a tree!

Arbra Kadabra is a very simple dexterity game for families about building a magical tree. A dice roll determines how many pieces you have to work with on your turn but you get to choose if you are adding or removing pieces of the tree. Every player has 5 pieces that have magical powers that can influence the turn of the next player forcing them to add or remove pieces or skip their turn. There is even a piece that will protect you from someone else using a special power against you until the next turn. The goal of the game is to get rid of all your own pieces -AND- have exactly 2, 3 or 4 pieces of each of your opponents in front of you (you get their pieces by removing from the magical tree on your turn). When you have that on your turn you can add the tree-top canopy pieces (a very large green disk) to the top. If nothing topples then you win. The dexterity side of this game is very simple (although you can add your pieces in a staggered pattern making it harder for your opponents - but if it gets back to you without collapsing then you've made it harder for yourself as well). The choice of adding or removing pieces adds some strategy because you have to make sure that you're not setting up your opponents for the win. The game is a lot of fun and has all the familiar tension of stacking/building games. I suspect that it might last a little longer than expected if only playing this game with 4 adults. Highly recommend for families looking for something fun to play with kids ages 7 and up.
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