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Game: Aloha

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Corné van Moorsel
Not known
Cwali
2005
2 - 5
45 min
10+

Game Description

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Aloha, Holiday Island. Island tourism grew explosively around 1960 and travel agents searched desperately for new paradise beaches. Your travel office asks you to explore new holiday destinations. Your task is to find the best beaches and the most attractive locations

Players take the role of Travel Agents trying to find and secure the best beaches for their own use. They do this by picking a tile at random and trying to place it on the board to their own advantage.

The game has an element of "push-your-luck" in that every tile picked up has to be placed, and if it can't, then the player's turn is over and they lose all the beaches they gained that turn. Due to the random nature of the tile draw, it's not really possible to plan your move ahead of time; it's more a matter of maximising your choices and pushing your luck as far as you feel happy to.

The game components are high quality, colourful and robust enough for family play.