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Tipperary (Minor Damage)

2024-11-04T15:56:38-05:00

Vendor: Lookout Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 44.10

Designer	Günter Burkhardt
Publisher	Lookout Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	378983/tipperary http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/378983/tipperary/forums/63

In the tile-laying family game Tipperary, players are challenged to create their perfect vision of an Irish county by placing polyominoes and thus collecting sheep, castles and whiskey. The linchpin ist a 'magical stone circle", that decides which of the tiles you can choose from. After twelve rounds, one player will be named chief of Tipperary.

Lookout threw in some cute animeeples - sheep, sheep, hurra!

Tipperary

2022-12-27T10:50:51-05:00

Vendor: Lookout Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 46.95

Designer	Günter Burkhardt
Publisher	Lookout Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	378983/tipperary http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/378983/tipperary/forums/63

Flotsam Float

2022-07-29T18:30:01-04:00

Vendor: HABA
Type: Board Games
Price: 49.95

Designer	Günter Burkhardt
Publisher	HABA
Players	2-5
Playtime	15-20 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Additional Info	362606/flotsam-float http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/362606/flotsam-float/forums/63

Skill is required in this game of island hopping. Flotsam Float contains 24 colorful stacking stones. This flotsam and jetsam must be collected and stacked on the wobbly raft. You need a steady hand because the fully loaded raft must be balanced to the next island.

In clockwise order, players pick a wooden piece and must stack it on one of the raft cards on top of the already existing found objects. In doing so, they must not move the other pieces. If no piece fell, that player may take an island card that has shells and a symbol on it. The symbol indicates which island the raft must be balanced to in the second phase. The islands are each four cards with a symbol on them, which are randomly distributed in the game area during the set-up. The raft card must be moved, but the found objects may not be touched. If again nothing has fallen down, this player gets the number of shells credited as points. The game is over as soon as only one island has island cards left. The player with the most shells wins.

Eco-Links (Import)

2021-07-19T01:39:47-04:00

Vendor: Broadway Toys LTD
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Designer	Günter Burkhardt
Publisher	Broadway Toys LTD
Players	2-4
Playing Time	20 mins
Suggested Age	7 and up
Additional Info	260269/eco-links http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/260269/eco-links/forums/63

Note: This game includes English and Chinese. For a preview, English rule can be found here.

Environmental changes have forced animals out of their natural habitats and separated them from each other. Restore their habitats and help them reconnect with their families! You can earn more points if you create your path before anyone else.

Eco-Links is played in several rounds, and all players play simultaneously. Every round, six number tiles are revealed. Players then place their animal markers to the corresponding numbers on their board. The aim is to connect them all together using your path tiles. However, only the first and second player to successfully link all markers can get points. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.

—description from publisher

Color It!

2020-08-03T12:34:36-04:00

Vendor: HABA
Type: Board Games
Price: 2.95

Designers	Lena Burkhardt Günter Burkhardt
Publisher	HABA
Players	2-4
Playing Time	10 mins
Suggested Age	4 and up
Additional Info	296353/color-it http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/296353/color-it/forums/63

Color It!

In the merry land of Kaleido, some of the colors have disappeared! It's the players' job to make the houses, flowers, hot-air balloons and rainbows shine in the most amazing colors once again? Save Kaleido by rolling the dice and choosing your colors wisely in two game variants. The first player to color in their sheet wins!

—description from the publisher

None of a Kind

2020-07-30T16:11:49-04:00

Vendor: AMIGO
Type: Board Games
Price: 18.95

Designer	Günter Burkhardt
Publisher	AMIGO
Players	2-6
Playing Time	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	91430/none-kind http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/91430/none-kind/forums/63

None of a Kind, a.k.a. Schwarz Rot Gelb, is a quick-playing pattern-building game — well, anti-pattern-building really. The game includes 80 color cards and 30 point cards (valued -4 to 10); each color card has 1-4 words on it, with the words being one of five colors but printed in one of the remaining four colors. Thus, the card might have "Gelb" (yellow) printed twice, but in black ink.

Shuffle the color cards, then spread them out on the table. Reveal as many points cards as the number of players. Each player takes a starting card and places it at the beginning of a row. Simultaneously, players start flipping over cards to find one that fits next to their rightmost card, with "fits" meaning that neither of the two colors on the rightmost card are repeated on the new card and the number of words showing on the two cards differ. If you draw a card that meets this description, add it to your row and draw again; if not, place it face-up on the table.

Once a player has a certain number of cards in their row — 7 to 11 depending on the number of players — they call "Stop!" All players check their card rows for errors, discarding any mistaken card and all cards played after it. The player with the longest row of cards claims the highest point card on display; the player with the second-longest row the next highest point card; and so on.

Shuffle the color cards for a new round of play. After five rounds, the player with the highest point total wins the game.

Puzzle-Memo

2020-06-16T15:25:40-04:00

Vendor: Drei Hasen in der Abendsonne
Type: Board Games
Price: 0.00

Designer	Günter Burkhardt
Publisher	Drei Hasen in der Abendsonne
Players	2-4
Playtime	15-20 mins
Suggested Age	5 and up
Honors	2020 Kinderspiel des Jahres Recommended
Additional Info	288969/puzzle-memo http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/288969/puzzle-memo/forums/63

When the sun rises over the jungle in Puzzle-Memo, its light illuminates the animals which live there.

In the center of the table, a game board shows the silhouettes of various animals of different sizes (1-4 tiles big). The tiles with the illuminated animals are shuffled and placed near the bottom of the board. Players take turns flipping over a tile and checking whether it fits in the bottom row of the board. If yes, they place it; if not, they place it face down near the top of the board. Players can choose whether they want to flip open tiles from the bottom or from the top, but tiles can only be placed if all spaces below them have already been filled. Some tiles have special functions when they are flipped open.

A player who manages to complete an animal moves their pawn along a victory point track. Pawns will be stacked and can carry other pawns toward victory. When the jungle is fully in the sunlight, the player whose pawn went furthest wins.

—user summary

Dragon's Breath: The Hatching

2020-03-25T21:46:51-04:00

Vendor: HABA
Type: Board Games
Price: 8.95

Designer	Günter Burkhardt Lena Burkhardt Annemarie Wolke
Publisher	HABA
Players	2-4
Playing Time	20 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Additional Info	285529/dragons-breath-hatching http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/285529/dragons-breath-hatching/forums/63

Oh no! The nest, complete with dragon egg and sparkling stones, is frozen inside an ice column! Help Dragon Mom melt the thick layer of ice, but be careful that the egg doesn’t fall out of the nest! Earn points by collecting the fallen sparkling stones and placing them on your amulet.

—description from the publisher

Glastonbury (Import)

2019-06-24T06:52:36-04:00

Vendor: franjos Spieleverlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 44.95

Designer	Günter Burkhardt
Publisher	franjos Spieleverlag
Players	2-4
Playing Time	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Honors	2017 Mensa Select Winner
Additional Info	144526/glastonbury http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/144526/glastonbury/forums/63

Note: This game is in English

In Glastonbury, the players are witches and wizards who shop for ingredients for their magic potions. Your token moves around the perimeter of an array of ingredient cards, and you pick one from the row or column where you stop. The number on the card you pick dictates how many spaces you move on your next turn.

To score points, you need to collect sets of four matching ingredients; if you have only one of a particular ingredient, you'll score penalty points instead. The scoring rules can be made more complicated if the players desire, but for most the basic rules are satisfying. A touch of memory is involved since you can see only the most recently chosen ingredient on your stack of cards.

Glastonbury is a new edition of the 2001 release Kupferkessel Co. with slight changes to the game. Now the game can be played by up to four players instead of being strictly a two-player game. The game includes additional ingredient cards and new spell cards that allow special actions.

Honga

2019-04-24T11:39:25-04:00

Vendor: HABA
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

Designer	Günter Burkhardt
Publisher	HABA
Players	2-5
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	255805/honga http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/255805/honga/forums/63

Excitement in a prehistoric period! The saber-toothed tiger clan is looking for a new leader, but which one of you can best take care of the clan in Honga and prove to be the most worthy leader?

There are multiple ways to prove your worth: gather supplies, comb through the dark forest, pay homage to the old nature gods, attract mammoths, and successfully trade with other clans. But! No matter how busy you are with these tasks, you can never forget Honga! Whenever you ignore the local saber-toothed tiger, he will come and eat your food — and getting rid of him can turn out to be tough.

Honga is an action selection resource management game for 2-5 players, age 8+, set in the prehistoric period. Players take turns playing their action card to the central board, paying careful attention to where they place it, and how it's rotated. The number of hands pointing to an action space determines how many times you may use that action. Gather resources and use them to complete trade agreements, lure mammoths to the tribe herd, and pay homage to the old nature gods. But! If you don't make sure that at least one action point is allocated to Honga's den, he'll come steal food from you! Players must balance between keeping Honga at bay and using their limited action points effectively.

With multiple paths to victory, light player interaction, and a 45 minute play time, this game will have you coming back again and again to play with Honga, the local saber-tooth tiger that's really just a big kitty at heart.

Dragon's Breath

2018-05-18T16:58:12-04:00

Vendor: HABA
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.99

Designers	Günter Burkhardt Lena Burkhardt
Publisher	HABA - Habermaaß GmbH
Players	2-4
Playtime	15 - 20 mins
Suggested Age	5 and up
Honors	2018 Kinderspiel des Jahres Nominee 2018 Kinderspiel des Jahres Winner
Additional Info	235655/dragons-breath http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/235655/dragons-breath/forums/63

On one of their expeditions the dragon children Mira, Feo, Luna and Diego discover an unusual sparkling treasure: a column of ice with sparkling stones frozen inside it.
They want to take the treasure back to their cave. But unfortunately the column of ice is too heavy. The only thing they can do is to melt it. But breathing fire isn't as easy as it sounds. Instead of fire they only manage hot air. Then the four of them have an idea: they'll get their dad to help.
And it works! Dad's fire breathing starts melting the column, and little by little the sparkling stones start falling out. The dragon children quickly collect the valuable treasures, and take them back to their cave.
With a little luck even dad will get a few sparkling stones! Which dragon child will collect the most sparkling stones in their cave by the end of the game?

—description from the rulebook

How to play:

1. Selecting a sparkling stone tile
2. Lifting an ice ring (the dragon dad will "melt" the top ice ring)
3. Dividing up sparkling stones (take all the fallen sparkling stones in the color of your sparkling stone tile from the game board)

Druids (German Import)

2018-02-08T01:44:50-05:00

Vendor: AMIGO
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Günter Burkhardt Wolfgang A. Lehmann
Publisher	AMIGO
Players	3-5
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	232417/druids http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/232417/druids/forums/63

Note: This game is in German. The game itself is language independent. English rules can be found here.

Description from the publisher:

Knowledge is power, but with power must come control. In Druids, the novices of the Stonehenge Academy must collect experience points in various knowledge domains, but you don't want knowledge from just any domain because if you enter a domain not intended for you, then you lose all knowledge previously gained that round.

In more detail, each player is dealt a hand of cards, with the deck containing cards in five colors, numbered 1-12 in each color. Players then play a trick-taking game, and whoever wins a trick must place the cards sorted by domain (color) in front of themselves; if they receive multiple cards of a color in the same trick, the lowest-valued card must be placed on top. The tricks continue until either all cards have been played or one player collects cards in all five colors. In this latter case, that player receives negative points for what they've collected while everyone else scores positively for their topmost card in each color. (If all the cards have been played, then all players score.) Whoever has the most points after five complete rounds wins!

In addition to the regular cards, Druids contains special cards that allow a player to avoid an unwanted trick or remove cards of one color from a player's holdings.

King Frog

2017-08-26T16:26:54-04:00

Vendor: Brain Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 20.95

Designer	Günter Burkhardt Dennis Kirps
Publisher	Brain Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	7 and up
Additional Info	209849/king-frog http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/209849/king-frog/forums/63

"Quibbit! Quibbit!" The frogs are croaking loudly over each other, and their pond is in a flurry of commotion because today is the day the king of frogs will be chosen.

King Frog is a fast-paced game about frogs moving around the pond. Players try to stay in the game for as long as possible and to land on the right spot. Spatial thinking, clever planning, and a bit of luck make this an engaging game for two to four players.

In more detail, players select cards from their hand to move their frogs around the pond, hopping over any frogs in the way, with lower cards getting priority. If you land on a lily pad of your color, you put your card back into your hand. Otherwise, you discard your card. If someone runs out of cards, they are eliminated from the game. The game also ends as soon as the person in front (the king frog) hops over the person in last place, in which case the king frog wins.

Die Gärten von Versailles (German Import)

2017-06-27T22:12:04-04:00

Vendor: Schmidt Spiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

Designer	Günter Burkhardt Lena Burkhardt
Publisher	Schmidt Spiele
Players	2-5
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	217344/die-garten-von-versailles http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/217344/die-garten-von-versailles/forums/63

Note: Thie game is in German. English rules can be found here.

Who can make the most beautiful garden for the king in Die Gärten von Versailles? In each round are tiles on which pavilions, hedges, flower fields, or fountains can be seen. If you get the right tiles with the right cards, you can quickly build the largest contiguous areas in the garden and win the King's favor.

Die Pyramiden des Jaguar (Import)

2017-04-13T03:13:03-04:00

Vendor: 999 Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 49.95

Designer	Günter Burkhardt
Publisher	999 Games
Players	2
Suggested Age	10
Additional Info	3321/die-pyramiden-des-jaguar http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3321/die-pyramiden-des-jaguar/forums/63

Note: This game is in Dutch, but the game itself is language independent. English rules can be found here.

Players build a pyramid using 40 numbered cards, taking care to construct the pyramid with the lowest value card at the bottom left, and the highest at the top. This is done by each player, in turn, offering two cards from their hand. The opposing player takes one of the two for his/her pyramid, leaving the other for the first player to put on their pyramid. Cards already on a pyramid can be covered once (after that they are covered by a jaguar stone), an action that triggers movement along the jungle path (scoring track). Certain steps on the path also contain events that can alter construction of the pyramids. The person who completes their pyramid first gets extra steps along the path. The round ends when a player has completed his pyramid, has only one or zero cards left in hand or when either player cannot legally play a card. After each round the top card of the draw deck is revealed - if the number on the card is lower than the position of the explorer that won the last round than that explorer has won, if not another round is played.

Die Pyramiden des Jaguar is part of the Kosmos two-player series.

Tambuzi ... den Letzten trifft der Blitz!

2017-02-01T01:04:00-05:00

Vendor: HABA
Type: Board Games
Price: 46.74

Designer	Günter Burkhardt
Publisher	HABA - Habermaaß GmbH
Players	2-4
Playtime	10 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Additional Info	163970/tambuzi-den-letzten-trifft-der-blitz http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/163970/tambuzi-den-letzten-trifft-der-blitz/forums/63

Bongo-bongo! In the sweltering heat of the savannah, the animals perform a rain dance for the weather god Tambuzi. Suddenly, a storm is brewing! They need to take cover quickly, but not all find a spot. When the sound goes off with a hissing flash, the animal that does not have a hut is out of the game. The goal is not to be struck by lightning as possible and to have the most points at the end.

Original German description:
Bongo-Bongo! In der brütenden Hitze der Savanne führen die Tiere einen Regentanz für den Wettergott Tambuzi auf. Plötzlich braut sich ein Gewitter zusammen! Schnell in Deckung, doch nicht alle finden einen Platz. Wenn der Sound mit einem zischenden Blitz erlischt, scheidet das Tier ohne Hütte aus. Ziel ist es, möglichst nicht vom Blitz getroffen zu werden und am Ende die meisten Punkte zu haben.

ROX

2017-02-01T01:02:00-05:00

Vendor: HABA
Type: Board Games
Price: 10.19

Designer	Günter Burkhardt
Publisher	HABA - Habermaaß GmbH
Players	2-4
Suggested Age	7 and up
Additional Info	194079/rox http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/194079/rox/forums/63

Druids are preparing for a great contest. Who will be the first to restore order to the elements?

In ROX, the druid players are presented with sixty cards that lay scattered on the table. Each card is one of five colors with a matching colored totem in the center of the card, and the border of the card has sixteen symbols in a mixture of the five colors.

To start a round, each player takes a card from the center, looks at the border to see which color/symbol is most prominent, then takes a card of this color, looks at the border, etc. until the player has placed a total of five cards in front of them. One all players have finished, the first player to finish uses a magic eye card to verify that they made the correct color choices for each card that they placed. If they did, they take the highest scoring card for the round; if not, they get nothing.

After a certain number of rounds, the player with the highest score wins.

Kilt Castle

2016-12-10T03:16:00-05:00

Vendor: Zoch Verlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 37.95

Designer	Günter Burkhardt
Publisher	Zoch Verlag
Players	2-4
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	205826/kilt-castle http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/205826/kilt-castle/forums/63

Description from the publisher:

Kilt Castle adds a simple and highly interactive card mechanism to the classic Euro game genre of outbuilding one's opponents in an attempt to control the largest territory.

The game board shows a grid of 5x5 squares. Ten cards are placed beside the first four rows in stacks of 4, 3, 2 and 1 card. On their turn, the player picks up an open card from one of the stacks next to the game board and places it in another row — always in a clockwise direction. All players whose colors are on that card (one or two) are then allowed to build a new tower or build on top of an existing tower in this particular row. Building on an open space is free, while building on top of somebody else's tower costs as many ducats as the number of "floors" already built. A player can decide to trigger a general round of scoring simply by moving the last card of any stack. High towers are a good way to claim a large, connected territory and collect a lot of ducats.

Pacal's Rocket

2016-09-17T15:03:00-04:00

Vendor: Piatnik
Type: Board Games
Price: 54.95

Designer	Günter Burkhardt
Publisher	Piatnik
Players	2-5
Playtime	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	186624/pacals-rocket https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/186624/pacals-rocket/forums/63

In Pacal's Rocket, each player build pyramids in the districts of the ancient Maya town Palenque. According to the dice roll of the actual round, the player moves his starship, a pipe. After the movement, a player may throw 1 energy stone of his own color into his starship and under certain restrictions another one into an opponent's starship. When starting the movement, any energy stones in the starship will stay on the board.

A player may build a pyramid if his energy stones are placed in a certain constellation on the board. In this case, he builds the pyramid and afterwards takes back his used energy stones.

For building a pyramid, the player gets victory points if he is the first builder in the district or gains the majority.

Ulm

2016-09-05T02:41:00-04:00

Vendor: HUCH! & friends
Type: Board Games
Price: 41.95

Designer	Günter Burkhardt
Publisher	HUCH! & friends
Players	2-4
Playtime	45-75 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	191876/ulm https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/191876/ulm/forums/63

Ulm is at its heyday. The construction of the Ulm cathedral has not yet been completed, but the city is already wealthy and prestigious.

In Ulm, players try to expand their spheres of influence and to make optimal use of the hustle and bustle on the marketplace around the cathedral.

Edison & Co.

2016-08-03T04:48:00-04:00

Vendor: Rio Grande Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 42.95

Designer	Günter Burkhardt
Publisher	Rio Grande Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	417/edison-co https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/417/edison-co/forums/63

Mad professors test their experimental racing machines on the lab roof. Each player has a favorite machine, a set of movement cards for the racers and a secret score card. The score card shows the actual result you want to achieve, each player wanting the 4 cars to finish in a different order. The movement cards have 3 functions, showing number of spaces to move, or direction to move in, or 2 vehicles out of the 4 available that you could move. Start order changes each turn, the first player chooses one card of the three available, the next chooses a different type of card, the 3rd player the last type. The final player decides which car moves of the 2 cars that have been chosen as possible cars to move. The board also has random oil patches and hazards.

Mops Royal

2015-07-06T20:33:00-04:00

Vendor: Noris Spiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.95

Designer	Günter Burkhardt
Publisher	Noris Spiele
Players	2-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	168535/mops-royal https://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1566307/mops-royal/reviews

Note: This game is in German

Players are building a 5x5 grid out of their tiles trying to position their tiles next to tiles sharing the colour or the symbol of the newly placed tile in order to create scoring opportunities for themselves. Every time you score you turn over one of the tiles used for scoring and can't use it again.

Knuckling Knights

2015-06-08T03:38:00-04:00

Vendor: HABA
Type: Board Games
Price: 25.49

Designer	Günter Burkhardt Benjamin Burkhardt
Publisher	HABA - Habermaaß GmbH
Players	2-4
Playtime	10 mins
Suggested Age	4 and up
Additional Info	11760/knuckling-knights http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/39805/knuckling-knights/reviews

Everyone is talking about it all over the country! At the castle of King Benjamin, the bravest knights are taking part in the grandest tournament of all times. There is rumbling and thumping in every corner of the castle. One by one, the knights are thrown inside the castle. The die is thrown and whoever rolls the right symbol may open the door of the castle. The knights tumble out and some may fall into the deep pits, forcing this player's turn to end. Who will have the most knights at the end of the game?

Casa Grande

2015-02-03T10:18:00-05:00

Vendor: Ravensburger
Type: Board Games
Price: 42.95

Designer	Günter Burkhardt
Publisher	Ravensburger Spieleverlag GmbH
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	103877/casa-grande http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/103877/casa-grande/forums/63

In Casa Grande players try to develop well-located building lots in order to construct large and tall buildings on them. Opponents can use your buildings for their own purposes, and the final result should be one large magnificant house – "casa grande" – after another.

Casa Grande is played on a game board that shows a square grid for the building area, which is framed by a track. At the start of the game, each player receives a number of building blocks and differently-shaped platforms. Each player also receives five bonus points and one pawn, which is placed on the track.

The game is played in turns with some elements being similar to Burkhardt's own Kupferkessel Co. At the start of his turn, the player rolls the die and moves his pawn forward on the track as many spaces as the number rolled. By expending bonus points, the player may move his pawn further. Then, the player must place one building block on the board in the column or row corresponding to the space on the track where his pawn is located. If he now has the building blocks needed to support one of his platforms, he may place that platform on top of the building blocks. If he does so, he gains an amount of money (Casa Grande Lire) based on the size of the platform and the level at which it was built.

After a platform has been added, building blocks may be added on top of the platform. If another player builds on top of your platform, you gain a number of bonus points. You also gain bonus points if your pawn ends its move on a corner (in which you don't get to place a building block). If a player accumulates nine or more bonus points, he receives nine Casa Grande Lire, but loses the bonus points.

The game ends at the end of the round in which a player has placed his last building block. The player who has collected the most money wins.

Vom Kap bis Kairo

2014-10-03T00:18:00-04:00

Vendor: Adlung-Spiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 11.95

Designer	Günter Burkhardt
Publisher	Adlung-Spiele
Players	2-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Honors	2002 Fairplay À la carte Winner 2002 Tric Trac Nominee
Additional Info	2555/vom-kap-bis-kairo http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/3838/vom-kap-bis-kairo/reviews

Players attempt to be the first to build a railway route from Cape to Cairo through various terrain types in Africa. Players begin with 100 pounds, which is used to bid on terrain cards and purchase missing tracks necessary to cross terrain. Each turn, a number of terrain cards equal to the number of players in the game are auctioned off and placed before the appropriate player's train, representing the next space to be crossed. Terrain cards show a number of tracks ranging from 0 to 3 and require from 6 to 10 tracks to cross depending on the type of terrain. In turn order, players flip additional terrain cards, and decide whether to build (cross terrain) or pass. When a terrain is crossed, the card is flipped face down and the player who completed the crossing receives back a number of pounds as indicated on the card. The track-building phase continues until one player has no terrain cards lying in front of their train, at which time a new set of terrain cards are auctioned. The first player to complete the crossing over eight terrain segments is the winner.