Rating: 6.7 Good
Popularity:30
Difficulty:Very easy
Year:2004
Players: 2-8 players
Playing time: 15 minutes
Age:8+

Official Site: Official Calliope Games product page for Tsuro: The Game of the Path


Created by: Tom McMurchie, Cathy Brigg, Shane Small, Franz Vohwinkel, Imelda Vohwinkel

Published by: Abysse Corp., Calliope Games, Kaissa Chess & Games

Alternate Names: Squiggle Game

Description:

Tsuro is a tile-based board game with an Asian spiritual theme. The goal of the game is to be the last player with a token left in the play area.

On their turn, each player selects a tile from their hand and place them on the 6x6 board to build a path that begins at the edge of the board and travels around the interior.

You must place a tile and slide your stone along the path created. When your tokens reaches the edge of the board or collides with another player's tokens, you are out of the game.

You have to plan your path wisely. The choices you make affect all the journey acros the board.

Tsuro is fun, fast, and exciting. It's elegantly designed and easy-to-learn.

Prices:
Retail Price:$35
Ebay:$35
Awards:
Golden Geek Best Light / Party Game Nominee 2006

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Components

  • 1 game board

  • 35 path tiles

  • 8 marker stones

  • 1 Dragon tile

The Tiles

Each path tile shows four lines-or paths-that create eight points on the tile's edges. When the tiles are laid alongside each other, these points line up and the paths continue.

Each tile is unique.

Paths on a tile might cross one another, but they each proceed uninterrupted and independently of the others.

Setup

  1. Lay out the game board.
  2. Each player chooses a marker.
  3. Find the Dragon tile and set it aside.
  4. Shuffle the path tiles and deal three face down to each player.
  5. These tiles create your hand. You may look at the tiles in your hand at any time.
  6. Stack the remaining path tiles face down. This stack is the draw pile.

Game Play

The oldest player takes the first turn. …



Tsuro of the Seas is a board game for two to eight players. Players sail their ships by placing wake tiles and moving their ships along the routes that begin at the edge of the board and travel through the mystic seas.

You will sail the treacherous waters of the Mystic Seas in an engaging game of adventure and suspense! As the captain of one of the Emperor's mighty Red Seal ships, you will navigate the seas by placing Tsuro wake tiles to direct your vessel. …



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Mystic Portal

(1 Tile)

The portal tile is shuffled into the wake deck during game setup.

The player that draws the portal tile may play it in lieu of a wake tile or at any time when he is faced with elimination, even on another player's turn. …




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