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Ubongo - Z-Man Games

Photos taken at the 2007 American International Toy Fair

From Erik Arneson, About.com

Ubongo - Z-Man Games

Ubongo - Z-Man Games

Photo © 2007 Erik Arneson
$39.99, ages 8 and up, 2 to 4 players, designed by Grzegorz Rejchtman

The first think you may think when you see this game is that it's a board game version of Tetris -- and that's not entirely inaccurate. Each player is dealt a card with pattern made of squares, along with 12 tiles in various square-based patterns. A dice roll assigns each player three of those tiles to fill the shape on his card.

The first player to solve a puzzle gets to move his pawn and claim gems, while other players can also claim gems but have less flexibility in doing so. After nine rounds, the player with the most gems of a single color wins.

More information: www.zmangames.com

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