RattleSnake - A family game for 2 to 4 players
Fantasy Flight Toys & Nexus
Roberto Di Meglio (War of the Ring, Age of Conan)
This is an interesting quick play game where players take turns lacing a snake pit with rattlesnake eggs. The 12 eggs are divided evenly and each player rolls a die depicting one of six colored snakes. You then place a snake egg on the board on top of a snake with the corresponding color (The board is a mash of different colored snakes). The first player to place all of their eggs without any rolling off the board or colliding into other eggs is the winner. If you goof you have to collect the offending eggs. Simple.
Oh and did I mention the eggs are oblong earth magnets... Clack! Clack! Clack! Go the snake eggs! Lots of fun, great at parties or as a drinking game, and very inexpensive (I picked it up for around $10 on sale). I think this is a game of pure approachable fun and would seem more at home on the shelves of Target then your local game store. Even though it has a die for randomization it still gets a nod from me. Everyone loves magnets and the fact that a game can actually play in under 5 min makes it a great filler to keep people occupied while waiting for players or for the teapot to whistle.
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so is the board sufficiently crowded such that it's hard to keep the eggs apart? Is it OK for the eggs to touch eggs of the same color?
ReplyDeleteGood questions. The board is approximately 16 x 10, so it is very small considering you have 12 eggs. I have played games where we fit 10 eggs on the board but unless you planned it I do not think you would see all one dozen sit still at once. The eggs are all gray; The snakes on the board match the colors on the die. So if eggs ever touch you must pick them up. Sometimes when the board is tight and you make a mistake you only pick up a couple and sometimes you cause a chain reaction that spells bad news.
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