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Space TiVitz
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- Replay Value (1-10): 5
- Fun Factor (1-10): 5
- Worth Buying (1-10): 7
The basic game here plays pretty much like Chinese Checkers; one player starts with pieces at the lower-left and tries to move all their pieces to the upper-right, while the other player starts with pieces at the lower-right and tries to move to the upper-left. The game comes with a large collection of game boards, and on the most basic gameboard the best strategy is basically to move all your pieces up the fastest. For the other gameboards, however, arithmetic becomes a necessary skill; each piece has a numeric value, and each destination spot has some arithmetic operators that affect your final score. For example, getting your "40" piece into the "x5" spot is much better than, say, getting your "24" piece and "32" piece into "-3" spots.
With 6 different sets of starting numbers, and dozens of different numbers on the gameboards, ostensibly this is never the same game twice. However, among adults who have no problem doing arithmetic, most of the games will probably evolve along the same strategy lines. Some of the more "advanced" gameboards have a lot of arithmetic that is educational but unnecessary (for example, having "x2^3" instead of "x8"). Probably good if your children need to practice those math skills, but adults may find this game somewhat tedious.
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