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Rated 4 out of 5
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A nice quick family game.
We played this game at the UK Games Expo and immediately ordered a copy from Thirsty Meeples. We've played it 3 times now, twice with 3 players and once with 4. Everyone has their own deck of cards from which they draw a hand of 3. You use these cards to draft tiles from the main board to fit onto your own player board. You're not trying to fill in your whole board but are attempting to match a set of objectives, 3 constant and others variable from game to game. Matching objectives allows you to place your totems, first player to place all 8 totems wins the game.
We've found it easy to learn and teach. The components are good quality and the artwork is lovely. The game is a bit of a race so goes by quickly. The bidding mechanic is interesting. A higher value will mean you can take more tiles from the main board but a lower value means you will go first so high numbers are not always the best and low cards can still be put to good use.
You are the leader of a prehistoric tribe, deciding which members of your tribe go hunting and what prey they want to catch. To guide you, the Elders have created challenges that you can complete by painting on the wall of your cave.
Each round inPrehistories, you and your fellow tribe leaders bid simultaneously (and secretly) to decide who hunts where. The more hunters you have, the bigger the game you can catch, but the slower you are. The fastest player — that is, the one with the smallest sum of hunters — goes first, but they have few hunters with which to hunt. To hunt, you assign your hunters to one or more locations to catch the prey waiting there. Prey is represented by polyomino tiles, and the larger the tile, the higher the sum required. If you have just enough hunters to catch your prey, they might be wounded in the process, which means you'll draw fewer hunter cards at the end of the round to refill your hand. (They distrust your leadership when you get them injured!)
In the second phase of a round, you paint your cave with the animal tiles collected during the hunting phase. Your cave is represented by a 7x7 grid that starts with a few tiles already in place. The first tile you place goes in the left-hand column, and all subsequent tiles must touch tiles already placed, with all tiles being oriented so that the animals are viewed with their legs (or fins) down. (Cavemen have simple tastes and want everything to be representational.)
When you fulfill the wishes of the Elders by painting your cave in certain ways — such as completing a horizontal line or connecting opposing corners or surrounding a legendary animal on all sides — you place one or more totem tokens on that challenge. Whoever first discards their eight totem tokens wins.
100%
of reviewers would recommend this product to a friend
1 Review
J
JonathanReviewed by Jonathan
Verified Reviewer
I recommend this product
Rated 4 out of 5
Review posted
A nice quick family game.
We played this game at the UK Games Expo and immediately ordered a copy from Thirsty Meeples. We've played it 3 times now, twice with 3 players and once with 4. Everyone has their own deck of cards from which they draw a hand of 3. You use these cards to draft tiles from the main board to fit onto your own player board. You're not trying to fill in your whole board but are attempting to match a set of objectives, 3 constant and others variable from game to game. Matching objectives allows you to place your totems, first player to place all 8 totems wins the game.
We've found it easy to learn and teach. The components are good quality and the artwork is lovely. The game is a bit of a race so goes by quickly. The bidding mechanic is interesting. A higher value will mean you can take more tiles from the main board but a lower value means you will go first so high numbers are not always the best and low cards can still be put to good use.
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