Board game · 2014

Lemming

Players: 2 to 5
Duration: 30 min
Age: 8 and up
Complexity: Beginner

Sebastian Bleasdale · Amigo

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01 Intro 00:00 02 Présentation 00:13 03 Matériel et Mise en Place 00:25 04 Distribution Initiale 01:37 05 But du Jeu 02:49 06 Déroulement 03:34 07 -Avancer: 04:10 08 -Jouer une Carte de Valeur Inférieure ou Egale: 04:46 09 Se déplacer 05:05 10 Pousser un Lemming 07:15 11 -Jouer une Carte de Valeur Supérieure: 08:07 12 Gain de Tuile Bonus 08:44 13 Placement de Tuile Bonus 09:08 14 Déplacement 10:02 15 -Passer pour Piocher 10:25 16 Bouger son deuxième Lemming 11:50 17 Pousser son autre Lemming 13:34 18 Ne pas utiliser tous ses points 14:17 19 Pousser une Ligne de Lemmings 14:34 20 Piles de Tuiles Bonus Epuisées 15:25 21 Remplacer une Tuile Bonus en Jeu 16:13 22 Pile de Pioche Epuisée 16:35 23 Fin de Jeu 17:25 24 Conclusion et Variante "Poussage" perso 17:55
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In brief

With a name like Lemminge, you know you're going to be racing little rodents across a finish line of some sort, and this design lives up to that promise. Each player controls two lemmings that must make their way across a game board of hexagonal spaces; most spaces contain grassland and can be entered no matter which card a player lays down, but some spaces contain special terrain (water, hills, etc.) that can be entered only when the appropriate card is played.

Each player starts with 2-6 cards in hand, with the number dependent on the player count. On a turn, a player either:

Discards any number of cards from hand, then refills her hand to six cards, or Plays a card, then moves one of her lemmings.

Each card is one of five landscape types and numbered 0-4. If the card played is equal to or lower than the value of the top landscape card of the same type, then the player adds the values of all landscape cards of this type, then moves her lemming up to this many spaces, crossing grassland and the depicted landscape type freely. If the card is higher than the top card of the depicted landscape type, then discard all cards of this type and start a new pile. Before moving her lemming, though, she places a bonus landscape hex of this type on the game board — ideally stifling the future movement of her opponents while scooting her own lemming further toward the goal.

If one or more lemmings are in your intended path of movement, you can push them aside before moving into the space, spending one point of movement for each lemming so moved. You can push your own lemming, if you set them up right — even across the finish line.

The first player to move both of her lemmings across the finish line wins.

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