Game: 10 Days in Africa
May. 10th, 2007 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI played 10 Days in Africa (courtesy HoR) with three others a couple of nights ago. It's described as a 2-4 player game, and I suspect it would be fine with two players.
Each person is a traveler working out a 10-day itinerary through Africa (on one of those "if it's Tuesday it must be Kigali" sort of tours). You can travel on foot from one country to the next, by car to a country one country away, or by plane to a country of the same color. What's challenging is that at the beginning you pick cards individually, putting each into place before choosing the next, and there's no shifting around. After that, there's a choice from one of three face up cards or one from the stack, trying to make a legal path touring the continent.
I enjoyed playing, becoming more familiar with the geography of the continent. There are other editions (U.S., Europe, Asia), but it sounds like it's more of the same (and I bet the U.S. edition would be boring, the states out west being so checkerboardy). I think it would be cool if there were an Oceania version, with canoes to get to other islands in the same archipelago, and big ships to go between islands of the same color. Of course, the map couldn't be to scale, given the size of the islands and the massiveness of the Pacific...
Each person is a traveler working out a 10-day itinerary through Africa (on one of those "if it's Tuesday it must be Kigali" sort of tours). You can travel on foot from one country to the next, by car to a country one country away, or by plane to a country of the same color. What's challenging is that at the beginning you pick cards individually, putting each into place before choosing the next, and there's no shifting around. After that, there's a choice from one of three face up cards or one from the stack, trying to make a legal path touring the continent.
I enjoyed playing, becoming more familiar with the geography of the continent. There are other editions (U.S., Europe, Asia), but it sounds like it's more of the same (and I bet the U.S. edition would be boring, the states out west being so checkerboardy). I think it would be cool if there were an Oceania version, with canoes to get to other islands in the same archipelago, and big ships to go between islands of the same color. Of course, the map couldn't be to scale, given the size of the islands and the massiveness of the Pacific...