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Spiel 2015 Preview: Karuba, or Temple Stroll

Spiel 2015 Preview: Karuba, or Temple Stroll
Board Game: Karuba
Designer Rüdiger Dorn has designed three well-regarded, thinky strategy games — Traders of Genoa, Goa, and Louis XIV — but the newest of those games dates to 2005. In the past decade, though, his designs have ranged from titles on par in terms of complexity with his 2004 release Jambo (Diamonds Club, the Jambo follow-up Asante, and Kennerspiel des Jahres winner Istanbul) to family-friendly titles such as Dragonheart, the excellent Las Vegas, and now Karuba, which HABA plans to release in the second half of 2015 as part of a new line of family games.

Karuba fits in the category of multiplayer solitaire with games like Take it Easy!, games that almost entirely live up to the "solitaire" in the description as each player has an individual game board and (almost) everything you do is on that board. You're racing to move adventurers on your team to temples on an island, and whoever gets to each temple first scores the most points — but you won't necessarily follow the same paths as anyone else to get there, and you'll likely be distracted by other treasures along the way...

From gallery of W Eric Martin

Midgame in Karuba


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