Tactics with luck content which is particularly interesting with 4 players

The gameplay of Lumis is quite simple: Using tokens to (either in 2 teams or 2 single player) connect the opposite sides of the playing field the players. For this, the playing fields are color-coded and you have appropriate color cards to play to put stones. To top it can not be easy to make the thus created paths only be built between built on special fields towers that can be built on by the other party at any time, as long as one has yet built no way.

The game runs laps based and you have during the game turn 3 options:
Build a tower at any height
Construction of a road between two towers
Retightening of cards
(+ Pass cards to the other players in the 4 player mode)

The fact that you can start anywhere on the field, the game is difficult to predict and their own tactics and destroyed quickly, that's really interesting. However, is also quite fast clear how much depends on the cards and it is usually better from a strategic perspective, to keep a certain stock of cards in hand, if necessary to be able to have timely overbuild a tower of the opponent, especially with 2 Players are coming so frequently to Bauzyklen and Nachziehzyklen, ie phases where it happened in quick succession followed and maps drawing episodes. By building of the plan, although the game mechanics are never the same, but the tactics limited to previously called Collecting and are significantly influenced by luck cards.

With four players I felt the principle much more exciting, especially in the variant silence is golden, in which the players must not be denied on the moves. Here is called for in my eyes thinking along much more to prepare his players to train accordingly and you have 3 moves of other players between its own and therefore one considers also the map-drawing, because much more can change in the game. The disclosure of cards to the players may or may not be helpful and should be carefully considered especially without communication.

The processing of the game is ok, the game pieces are but sometimes quite difficult to put together. The presentation is nicely done, but overall neither outliers up or down.

We play the game, therefore, prefer to fourth and here there is an interesting game idea that is fun and inviting to follow the arguments. Couple the gameplay is quite similar and the tactic is dominated by collecting cards and cards luck. In sum, it is enough so still for 4 stars because of the particular 4-player mode well pleases. If you like four plays and doing a bit taktiert, the game should look closer.