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The Hearmees

2020-05-19T03:20:05-04:00

Vendor: HABA
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.99

Designer	Wolfgang A. Lehmann
Publisher	HABA
Players	3-4
Playing Time	15-20 mins
Suggested Age	5 and up
Additional Info	237212/hearmees http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/237212/hearmees/forums/63

... claw, listen, earn points

Listen up, Hearmees builders! We need to expand our city! The supervisor whips out his clawky-talky and claw-it…and off we go. Behind his screen, the boss claws pictures. All other players listen closely and guess what object is meant to be built. Was it a hammer or was it actually a broom? Whenever a Hearmeeshas heard the right object, he has the chance to add one new building to his neighborhood. Who has a great imagination and the best ears and will finish his neighborhood first?

An unique listening & "drawing" game with two game variations.

—description from the publisher

How to play:

Phase 1: Clawing – Listening – Placing
The supervisor takes the top task card and places it behind his screen so that only he can see it. The Hearmees focus their entire attention onto their venture cards! When everyone is ready, the supervisor takes the claw-it and copies the picture on the task card onto the clawky-talky.

Phase 2: Expanding Harquart City
Everyone wants to be the first to complete expanding his neighborhood. To do this, you need to win one house tile from each of the 5 distinct kinds of buildings. Each building type has a different color. Be alert! The house tiles also have various point values.

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.

The Reef

2016-05-20T15:47:00-04:00

Vendor: Rio Grande Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Christine Lehmann, Wolfgang A. Lehmann
Publisher	Rio Grande Games
Players	2
Playtime	60 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	509/reef https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/509/reef/forums/63

After arranging the cards to form the reef, players roll dice to collect worms, spend worms to buy cards, use the cards to breed fish to win the game. You need to buy more boats to increase the columns on which you can fish. You need to buy reef cards (5 in total) on which you breed the parents, first to get 5 offspring wins. There are also pearl cards, which act as joker worms, and sharks, which eliminate cards by eating them.

There is a deck of offspring, 4 are dealt up, being combinations of the 5 colors. So there are blue green fish, pink yellow fish, purple purple fish. The parents are in the same colors, some male, some female. So, for example, to collect the blue green baby fish, you need a blue male and green female, or a blue female and green male. Any used cards go to the discard, which gets shuffled round and feed back into the reef. The cost of cards depends on their position on the reef, and there is a rule for flowing cards through past your boats.

The Reef is part of the Kosmos two-player series.

Potato Man (New Compact Edition)

2014-05-19T03:25:00-04:00

Vendor: Mind's Vision
Type: Board Games
Price: 21.95

Designer	Günter Burkhardt Wolfgang A. Lehmann
Publisher	Mind's Vision
Players	2-5
Playtime	40 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Honors	2014 Spiel des Jahres Recommended
Additional Info	137155/potato-man http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1360601/potato-man/reviews

Potato Man is a trick-taking game with the largely unused theme of potatoes in which you can sometimes achieve the highest scores with the smallest potatoes.

After dealing the cards out, players each play one card to the center of the table to form the "trick" – but each of the four colors can be played only once. (The exception: In a five-player game, one color can be played twice.) Whoever plays the highest card wins the trick – except that the three least valuable cards of each color win the trick when one of the three most valuable cards of a color would win otherwise. Whoever wins a trick leads to the next trick.

Each color has its own small deck of scoring cards with increasing values, and when a player wins a trick, he takes the topmost scoring card of the corresponding color. Thus, the more tricks that have been won with this color, the more valuable the next trick won with this color will be. Thus, you want to keep high cards of a frequently winning color in your hand in order to maximize your points – but the round ends as soon as a player cannot play a card due to the restrictions on which cards can be played in a given trick.

Players tally their points, then begin a new round, with the game lasting as many rounds as the number of players. In the end, whoever tallies the most points wins!