Snakes
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3.7
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Players
2-4
Weight
N/A
Playtime
45 min
Age
8+
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Boardgame version of the well-known video-game Snake.
Players move on the 8x8 grid game board hunting food or bonus objects and try to avoid to hit the walls and opponents' snakes. For every food they eat they grow 1 snake-piece longer. Eaten food may be use for scoring or for their special abililities.
In his turn player:
1) roll 3xd8 for placing food/object on the board
player chooses 1xd8 as food/object and other 2xd8 for coordinates.on the game board
2) playing card with the food icon and number for snake moving
a) exchanging all these food for points (1 food = 1 point,
2 foods = 1+2=3 points, 3 foods = 1+2+3=6 points etc.)
b) moving his snake in straight direction as many squres as showed on the card.
Game ends if player places his last snake-piece on the table in his turn and then the scoring take places. Players add 1 point for every snake-piece on the scoring track. Player with the most points is the winner.
Contents:
1 gameboard
40 Snake-pieces in 4 colors
4 scoring markers in 4 colors
36 cards
35 Food tiles (Mice, Rats, Rabbits, Snails, Moles, Crabs)
15 Bonus object tiles marked with "?" (Magnets, Scissors, Bombs, Clues, Stones)
3xd8 dice