Lemmings

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Lemmings
Game data
author Sebastian Bleasdale
graphic Loïc Billiau
publishing company Amigo , Piatnik , Gigamic
Publishing year 2014
Art Board game
Teammates 2-5
Duration 30 minutes
Age from 8 years

Lemmings - Who Jumps First? is a board game by game designer Sebastian Bleasdale for two to five people. The game was published in German by Amigo in 2014 and in a multilingual version as a collaboration between Amigo, Piatnik and Gigamic .

Theme and equipment

The game is a race in which players try to be the first to reach a cliff and plunge into the sea from there. The player who manages to reach the goal with his two lemmings first wins.

In addition to the instructions, the game material consists of:

  • a game plan
  • 5 lemming cards
  • 55 terrain cards with five terrain types and values ​​from 0 to 4
  • 21 bonus tiles
  • 10 game pieces (two lemmings each in five colors)

Style of play

To prepare for the game, the game board is placed in the middle of the game and one card from each of the five terrain types with the value 2 is placed next to the board as the start of the five terrain piles. Each player chooses a color and receives the two matching lemmings, which are placed in the starting area of ​​the game board. The bonus tiles are laid out and the remaining terrain cards are shuffled, after which the players receive their starting cards depending on the number of players.

Starting with the starting player, the players move one after the other in a clockwise direction. Each player can choose whether he wants to move a lemming or fill up the hand of cards. To move a lemming, the player chooses a card from hand and compares its value with the value of the top card of the corresponding terrain pile. If the value is equal to or less than the top card, he also places it on top of the pile and moves one of his lemmings a maximum of the number of spaces that corresponds to the sum of all cards in this terrain pile. If the value is higher, the corresponding terrain pile is completely placed on the discard pile and a new card is started with the new card. The player receives a bonus tile of the terrain type of the played card and must immediately place it on any field on the game board, thereby changing the terrain type of the field. Finally he can move one of his lemmings a maximum of as many spaces as the played card shows. If one lemming meets another in one movement, it can be pushed. The prerequisite is that the player has enough movement points both to move his own lemming to the desired occupied space and to move all lemmings in front of it one space straight ahead to any space of the terrain. If a player cannot or cannot play a card to draw lemmings, he fills up his hand. To do this, he may discard any number of cards from his hand and then fill up the number of cards in hand to 6 cards.

The game ends when one player manages to reach the goal with both lemmings. That player wins the game.

Extension of the rules through the German Board Game Championship

As part of the German team championship in the board game 2014, the set of rules was slightly modified to allow a rating for all players. The game is played until all but one player have reached the goal with their two lemmings and the places are allocated in the order in which the second lemming of a player arrives at the goal. The remaining cards in hand of players who have finished the game are put on the discard pile.

Development and reception

The game was developed by the game designer Sebastian Bleasdale and published in 2014 in German by the publisher Amigo and in a multilingual version as a collaboration between Amigo, Piatnik and Gigamic under the name Lemming . Another version was published by Piatnik in Hungarian.

In 2014, the game was selected and played as one of four final games as part of the German team championship in board games . An online playable version of the game has been on the yucata.de platform since 2006.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g How to play Lemmings
  2. ↑ a b Lemmings on yucata.de; accessed on November 17, 2017.
  3. ↑ Versions of Lemmings in the BoardGameGeek game database ; accessed on November 17, 2017.

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