Planet (game)

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planet
Game data
author Urtis Sulinskas
graphic Sabrina Miramon
publishing company Blue Orange Games ,
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Publishing year 2018
Art
Teammates 2 to 4
Duration ~ 30 to 45 minutes
Age from 8 years

Awards

Planet is a placement game by Urtis Šulinskas , which was released under license by various publishers in several international editions in 2018. For the German-speaking area it was published by Blue Orange Games . In Planet , the players have to design a planet with different landscapes by placing pentagonal landscape parts on a three-dimensional planet and thus creating optimal habitats for the animal species on display.

The game was awarded the Mensa Select prize as one of five games in the Mind Games competition of the Mensa International association in 2019 .

Furnishing

In addition to the set of instructions, the game consists of four three-dimensional planetary bodies, each with twelve surfaces equipped with magnets, 50 pentagonal landscape tiles with an integrated metal foil, 45 animal cards, five target cards and a starting player marker.

Style of play

To prepare for the game, each player receives a planetary body. A hidden display of 10 by five tiles is formed from the landscape tiles, and a total of 20 animal cards are laid out face up below this. Finally, each player draws a target card that indicates the type of landscape for which he gets his base points at the end. The game is played over 12 rounds, in which the players expand their planet by one landscape tile.

The game begins with a starting player (according to the rules, the youngest player), then all players play in clockwise order. The starting player receives the starting player marker and reveals the first pile of landscape tiles. Starting with the starting player, all players choose a tile from these and place it on their planet. The remaining tiles are placed face down at the end of the row and form two more stacks over the next few rounds. In the first two rounds these end after the landscape tiles have been distributed and the starting player marker is passed on to the next player who begins the next round.

From the third round, the animal cards are also settled and distributed underneath the tiles. The distribution depends on the landscape types indicated on the animal map:

  • a card with a ring of landscapes is awarded to the player who has the most completed landscapes of this type on his planet,
  • a card with a large and a small landscape is awarded to the player who has the largest landscape area of ​​this type on his planet that borders at least one landscape of the second landscape type, and
  • a card with a large and a crossed out small landscape is given to the player who has the largest landscape area of ​​this type on his planet that does not border on any landscape of the second landscape type.

From the sixth round two animal cards are awarded, from the tenth round three.

The game ends after the 12th round, when all 12 areas of the planets are covered with continents and all animal cards have been distributed. Then it comes to the settlement, in which first the target cards of the players are settled. The player receives points according to the number of landscape fields indicated on the cards. In addition, they receive 1 point for each animal card of the same type of landscape as their target card won and 2 points for each animal card won for a landscape type that differs from their target card. The player with the most points wins the game; in the event of a tie, the player with the most animal cards wins.

Expenses and reception

The game Planet was developed by Urtis Šulinskas and launched internationally by several publishers in 2018. The French publisher Blue Orange Games published a multilingual version in German, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish in 2018, as well as its own version in German. In 2019 it was also published in Spanish by Fractal Juegos, in Korean by Korea Boardgames, in Japanese by Arclight, in Hungarian by Gém Klub and in Hebrew by FoxMind Israel. The German-language version is distributed by Asmodee .

At the Mind Games competition of the Mensa International Association 2019, Planet was awarded the Mensa Select prize as one of five games .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Planet , rules of the game of the German edition of Blue Orange Games, 2018.
  2. ↑ Versions of Planet in the BoardGameGeek game database ; accessed on November 24, 2019
  3. ↑ Planet at Asmodee ; accessed on December 9, 2019.
  4. ↑ Winner of the Mensa Select on mensamindgames.com; accessed on December 9, 2019.
  5. ↑ 2019 Mensa Select® Winners Announced on us.mensa.org; accessed on December 9, 2019.

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