A fun time guaranteed

🐐Dance of Ibexes is getting a cool new version after 20 years. It plays basically like the card game ‘6 Nimmt’ or ‘Take 5’ if you know those, but with some additional twists - you also have chunky wooden tiles instead of cards here, and a cool magnetic box that folds out as the game board. 😉 If you don’t know how those games work, let me give you a quick rundown! 👇

Players hold a few tiles in their hands and each turn they have to pick one in secret. When everyone is ready you reveal tiles and put them on a row of the board starting with the lowest value tile, obeying a few specific rules 🧐 - putting numbers in ascending order, after the closest possible number. If that is not possible (because your number is too small), you put your number after the highest one, basically resetting that row. 

While you have control over what tile to play and guess where it will go, you cannot know what other players are playing. And this is where the chaotic fun of the game appears: 😁 if your tile gets added to a row that is already full, you get penalty points - you discard the tiles from that row and start a new one (higher on the board) with the tile that didn’t fit. So as you are playing your aim is to play safe numbers, trying not to get penalty points as the player with the lowest total will win. 

There are some other icons that keep things interesting. Certain rows have Eagles 🦅 on them, which also give penalty points if you place on them. 

There is the Double Play icon - if a row is in play with this, players have to play 2 tiles instead of 1 each turn!

Then there is Salt 🧂 - if a row is in play with this icon, every penalty point counts as positive points instead! 😮

The game accommodates 2 to 8 players. It was surprisingly fun even with 2p, but this will definitely start to shine if you have 4-5 players present. I’m not sure how 7 or 8p would work in practice, but the game might become overly chaotic that way! 😀