Neolithibum

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Neolithibum
The sanctuary: stones on a wooden disc
The sanctuary: stones on a wooden disc
Game data
author Harald Bilz , Peter Gudbrod
graphic Uwe Sammann
publishing company Heidelberger Spieleverlag
Publishing year 1991
Art Skill game
Teammates 2 to 6
Duration 40 minutes
Age from 8 years

Awards

Neolithibum is a skill and party game by the game designers Harald Bilz and Peter Gudbrod . The game for two to six players, ages eight and up, lasts around 40 minutes per round. It was published as a multilingual version in 1991 as one of the first games by the Heidelberg game publisher founded by Bilz and Gudbrod . In 1992 it was voted 10th best game in the German Games Prize .

Theme and equipment

The game is a skill and party game in which the players try to put stones on a pile of stones, the sanctuary, and complete a puzzle picture with puzzle pieces they have won.

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

  • a game board with storage space for the cards, stones and the wooden disc,
  • a wooden disc,
  • six player boards with storage spaces for the puzzle,
  • Stones of different sizes,
  • Stone Age food tokens,
  • 23 handicap cards,
  • 36 menhir tiles,
  • six puzzles made from bear skull pieces (nine pieces each) and
  • two cloth bags.

Style of play

At the beginning of the game, the game board is placed on a table in the middle of the game. The wooden disc is placed in the middle of the game board and the stones are sorted according to size and placed in the corners. The Stone Age food is mixed and placed in a bag, and the puzzle pieces are put in the other. Then the handicap cards are shuffled and also placed on the game board. Each player chooses a player board and receives six different menhir tiles and draws five stone age food tiles from the bag.

Starting with a starting player, all players place menhir tiles in front of them one after the other, each of which has to point to a different player. Then all the tiles are turned over at the same time and then processed one after the other. All players have to take the actions of the menhirs that point to them. There are a total of six options:

Menhir Actions
Stone girders
large
medium
small 		The stone porters must each place a stone of the specified size on the sanctuary. Depending on the size of the stones, they have to give one, two or three points of Stone Age food and, if successful, they can take one, two or three bear skull parts from the bone pit or the little bag. Duplicate parts must be returned to the bone pit immediately.
wise guy If a wise guy points to a player who is a stone carrier in the same round, he must draw a handicap card and place his stone on the pile with it. The owner of the wizard then receives a bear skull part. A player must draw a maximum of three handicap cards with increasing levels of difficulty and meet all requirements at the same time.
eater If you play the eater, you can draw five pieces of Stone Age food, but only if the other players did not play exactly one stick man.
Batman If exactly one stick man is played in a round, he receives five food tiles from all eaters and they are not allowed to draw any new tiles. If there are several stick men on display, they get nothing and the eaters can draw new cards.
The bone pit

As soon as stones fall from the sanctuary, a guilty party is determined who then has to drop two bear puzzle pieces into the bone pit. After that, all the stones are put back in the quarries and the sanctuary is rebuilt. The actions of the players who were not turned before the collapse expire with the collapse. If no other player places a stone in the sanctuary in a round (because no corresponding actions have been played or the other players did not have enough food), all players must each put a bear puzzle piece into the bone pit or place another stone without a reward but with payment .

If a player succeeds in placing a stone on the sanctuary, any other player may report doubts about it. Now the investor can either prove that he can pick up the stone again and place it again or insist that the installation was correct. In the latter case there is a bet in which both opponents each place the amount of food in their fist that is worth the dispute to them, and whoever offers more food wins the dispute; other players can interfere and take sides by also offering food that is attributed to the party. All opponents give up the used food and if the investor loses, he has to put the stone again. If he succeeds, he has won. The loser from the doubt must give the winner a bear puzzle piece of his choice.

The game ends when a player has completed their bear puzzle. The corresponding player wins the game.

Expenses and reception

The game Neolithibum was developed by the game authors Harald Bilz and Peter Gudbrod and published in 1991 as one of the first games in the Heidelberger Spieleverlag , which they founded . It was published in a German version, a multilingual version in German, English, French and Spanish and a version for Scandinavia in Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian and Danish.

In 1992 it was voted 10th best game in the German Games Prize .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Instructions for the Neolithibum (Edition Schmidt Spiele, 2012)
  2. ↑ Versions of Neolithibum in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English); accessed on December 28, 2017

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