Karuba

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Karuba
Game data
author Rüdiger Dorn
graphic Claus Stephan
publishing company HABA
Publishing year 2016
Art Placement game
Teammates 2 to 4
Duration 30 to 40 minutes
Age from 8 years

Awards

Karuba is a family and placement game by the game designer Rüdiger Dorn . The game for two to four players, ages eight and up, takes around 30 to 40 minutes per round. It was published by HABA in 2015 and was nominated for Game of the Year 2016 the following year . In terms of content, Karuba is an expedition game in which the players try to lead an expedition through hidden paths through the jungle of the island of Karuba and find valuable treasures and hidden temples.

Theme and equipment

In the game, the players try to find a way to the temples in the jungle of the island of Karuba using tiles on their island space and to find as many treasures as possible in the form of crystals and gold nuggets. The winner of the game is the player who has collected the most valuable treasures at the end of the game.

The game material consists of a set of instructions

  • four player boards as storage areas for the game tiles ("island"),
  • 144 jungle tiles, consisting of four sets of 36 numbered tiles each,
  • 16 adventurer figures, four each in the player colors brown, blue, purple and orange,
  • 16 temple stones, four each in the player colors mentioned,
  • 16 temple treasures, four each in the named player colors with the values ​​2, 3, 4 and 5,
  • 64 crystals, value 1, and
  • 16 gold nuggets, worth 2.

Style of play

Before the game, each player has an island tableau, a set of jungle tiles and four temple stones and four adventurer figures in different colors. The temple treasures are sorted by color and then sorted with the highest value and laid out openly at the top, they come together with the crystals and gold nuggets in the middle of the table. Each player places his island plateau in front of him, then all players one after the other place an adventurer and a temple of one color on their tableau, the adventurers being placed on the starting fields on the beach and the temples on the target fields in the jungle. All other players place the respective pieces of the same color on the identical fields of their tableau, so that in the end all players have the same starting position. A player becomes the expedition leader and shuffles his jungle tiles, which he then puts face down as a pile next to his tableau. All other players sort their jungle tiles by number and place them face up around their island.

Actions per game round
  • Expedition leader reveals
    a tile
  • All players
    use the tile to:
    • Lay out or
    • Discard,
      move adventurers and
      collect treasures

In the game, all players build a network of paths in parallel on their player board. In each round the expedition leader begins to reveal a tile and all players have to take the tile with the same number from their display and either place it on the island or discard it and draw their adventurer. If the player decides to lay out the tile, he places it upright on any space on his island. Not all paths have to be connected; dead ends can also arise. If it is a tile with a crystal or a gold nugget, the player places a corresponding treasure on the tile. If the player decides to discard the tile instead, he may also draw one of his adventurers. The adventurer moves a maximum of as many tiles forward along the paths already laid out as there are paths over the edge of the discarded tile (2, 3 or 4). Movement may not be split between several adventurers, but steps may also expire. In addition, there can only be one adventurer on each tile and no adventurer can be skipped. If a movement ends on a field with crystals or gold nuggets, the player may take them and further steps may be lost. However, a player may also walk across fields with treasures without ending up there and taking them. When a player reaches the temple of the matching color, he stops there and takes the temple treasure of the corresponding color that is on top and is therefore most valuable; If several players come to the corresponding temple in the same turn, they all receive the same value of the treasure via the following tiles and a corresponding number of crystals.

The game ends when the last of the 36 jungle tiles has been revealed by the expedition leader, or when one of the players has drawn his 4 adventurers to the corresponding temples. At the end of the game the values ​​of the treasures are added up, the winner is the player with the highest value. In the event of a tie, the player who has more jungle tiles on his island wins.

Versions and reception

The game Karuba was developed by the German game author Rüdiger Dorn and was published at the same time as a version in German and English and a version in French and Dutch for the 2015 International Game Days at the publisher HABA. In 2016, in addition to a new edition of the two versions, an edition was published in Polish, also by HABA, and in Chinese by Swan Panasia. A Portuguese edition followed in 2018 by Conclave Editora.

In 2016 Karuba was nominated for the game of the year , but lost to the game Codenames by Vlaada Chvátil . The jury for the game of the year described the game as follows:

“Precious stones, gold and temples attract adventurers to Karuba. To get to the treasures, the players pave paths for their four explorers from the beach through the jungle. To do this, they place path tiles on free spaces on their own island board - at the same time with identical tiles, round after round. But a well-developed network of paths alone is not enough. The tactically thinking jungle planner also needs a running strategy. If you discard a tile, you can move one piece forward. The more paths there are on the tile, the more steps are allowed. And the sooner a temple is reached, the more valuable the treasures that remain there. But is it worth rushing ahead if other adventurers are slowed down in the jungle or gold nuggets get stuck along the way? "

- Jury of the Game of the Year, 2016

Based on Karuba , in 2017 HABA released a child-friendly version of the game called Karuba junior and a card game version as Karuba: Das Kartenspiel .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d game instructions Karuba ; accessed on September 5, 2018
  2. ↑ Karuba , versions at BoardGameGeek. Retrieved September 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Karuba on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on September 5, 2018

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