Bausack
| Bausack | |
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 Bausack with tower and material |
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| Game data | |
| author | Klaus Zoch |
| publishing company |
Zoch Verlag , Milton Bradley , Marektoy , u. a. |
| Publishing year | 1987 |
| Art | Skill game |
| Teammates | 2 to 6 |
| Duration | 15-30 minutes |
| Age | from age 6
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| Awards | |
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Game of the year 1988: shortlist |
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The Bausack is a board game by Klaus Zoch . It combines a game of tactics with a game of skill . The goal is for each player to stack different game blocks on top of one another. To do this, however, the players have to assess their own skills and be able to negotiate specifically which blocks they can build in their tower and which cannot. It was published by Zoch Verlag in 1987. The game is aimed at two to six players aged five and over. The playing time of a game of Bausack is around 15-30 minutes.
material
The game is sold in the form of a small bag and this Bausack contains about 70 wooden pieces of various shapes and sizes with which five different versions can be played. A bag of dried beans is also included as a means of payment . At the time of publication, the Bausack was a novelty, as it was the first time a game deviated from the usual game box. The building bag is also available in a design version with 30 additional parts and the wooden shapes in red and black as Sac Noir .
variants
Depending on the composition of the players (children, children plus adults, adults) one of several variants can be chosen, which in addition to skill also include a different dose of tactics:
Tower of Babel
All players build a tower together. If the tower collapses, the player who contributed the last safe component gets a bean. The winner is whoever has five beans first.
Construction chain
The sack is poured out in the middle of the table. Now the players take turns taking twelve pieces of wood. The chain must correspond exactly to the subsequent construction sequence. Each player gets a foundation and whose building remains standing the longest wins.
Knock out
Each player receives ten beans as starting capital. The starting player selects a component and now has two options: either he auctioned it normally, the highest bid wins and he may submit the first, or he auctioned it "to reject" . If you don't want it, you have to pay. Whose tower remains standing the longest wins.
Imposture
In your turn you auction a component, which you then either have to install yourself or with a fellow player.
3 × red wins
The winner of the auction can decide where the component is to be installed: in their own or someone else's tower.
In turn
All components are designed to be accessible to all players. All players start their own tower one after the other. After each player has placed his first component, the players take turns to change their positions, so that in the next round each player expands the neighbor's tower by one component, etc. Here you have to build tactically so that the next one on the tower has as much difficulty as possible to expand. Players are eliminated one at a time if the tower they are currently building collapses. Another challenge with this game variant is when the direction of the tower swap is changed during the game. Then you may have to continue building on the tower that you previously designed to be as non-expandable as possible.
Web links
- Bausack in the Luding games database
- Bausack in the games database BoardGameGeek (English)
- Bausack at Michas-Spielmitmir