Tales & Games: Baba Yaga
15m
2 - 5 Players
Ages 6+
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Many Russian tales speak of the character of Baba Yaga, the ogress witch who lives in a house with chicken legs. Fortunately for them, children always find unexpected allies and manage to escape her. Will you prove as fortunate?
In Baba Yaga, you need to escape the claws of the hideous Baba Yaga. To do so, however, you need to collect the ingredients for your three spell cards, and to do that you need to search the forest while Baba Yaga searches for you.
To set up the game, place nine Baba Yaga tiles in a cross to form a flight path, then place the 16 ingredient tokens face down, with four tokens in each section of the cross. Each player starts the game with three spell cards, which must remain hidden. On a turn, the active player reveals her top spell card, which shows four ingredients, then starts searching for these ingredients in the forest, turning over tiles one by one with a single hand and hiding those she doesn’t need. While she does this, the other players take turns moving the Baba Yaga figurine one step at a time along one branch of the flight path, then back. If Baba Yaga completes a circuit before the player finds the ingredients, she must place her spell card on the bottom of her stack; if she finds the ingredients, however, she gets to cast the spell on the card, lengthening or shortening the flight path, swapping the location of ingredients, requiring fewer ingredients next time, forcing an opponent to play in a distorted position, and so on. The first player to complete her three spells wins!
Baba Yaga includes variants for younger players, more experienced players, and those who want the chicken-legged house to be constantly on the move. In the two-player game, the single opponent does all the moving of Baba Yaga, but must swap hands with each move, keeping the inactive hand on her head.
Ages | 6+ |
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Players | 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players |
Play Time | 15m |
Designer | Jérémie Caplanne |
Mechanics | Memory, Simultaneous Action Selection |
Theme | Action / Dexterity, Children's Game, Memory, Novel-based, Party Game, Real-time |
Publisher | 2 Pionki, Purple Brain Creations, Albi, Asterion Press, Delta Vision Publishing, IELLO, Lex Games, Portal Games |
David_Artrex
Schöne ausgestattetes Kinderspiel, das allerdings spielmechanisch kaum zu überzeugen vermag, denn es ist eigentlich nur eine Art simples Memory mit Zeitbegrenzung.
MissJekyll
More real-time "flip things over as quickly as you can" mechanics, mixed with a memory element. We just got in each other's way (one person had to move the figure while the other tried to find matches by turning over face down tiles), and the game felt clunky. I don't like real-time races in games, I have no interest in being challenged on how quickly I can flip tiles or move a figure.
ColtsFan76
I have this because I like the series and my kids enjoy the games. This has been my least favorite though it is still a decent game. Baba Yaga doesn't seem to be a well know fable here so that may have a little to do with my lukewarmness on it. The other issue I have with it is the subjective nature of the "tier." it is a clever mechanic but can be a little difficult to manage with the younger kids and the chaos it creates. It is definitely a notch above the typical memory matching games and even the clues on the back of the tiles are subtle enough in most cases to keep it a challenge.