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Baba
Yaga
$29.99
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Many
Russian tales speak of the character of Baba Yaga, the ogress witch who lives
in a house with chicken legs. Fortunately for them, children always find
unexpected allies and manage to escape her. Will you prove as fortunate?
In Baba Yaga, you need to escape the
claws of the hideous Baba Yaga. To do so, however, you need to collect the
ingredients for your three spell cards, and to do that you need to search the forest while Baba Yaga searches
for you.
To
set up the game, place nine Baba Yaga tiles in a cross to form a flight path,
then place the 16 ingredient tokens face down, with four tokens in each section
of the cross. Each player starts the game with three spell cards, which must
remain hidden. On a turn, the active player reveals her top spell card, which
shows four ingredients, then starts searching for these ingredients in the
forest, turning over tiles one by one with a single hand and hiding those she
doesn’t need. While she does this, the other players take turns moving the Baba
Yaga figurine one step at a time along one branch of the flight path, then
back. If Baba Yaga completes a circuit before the player finds the ingredients,
she must place her spell card on the bottom of her stack; if she finds the
ingredients, however, she gets to cast the spell on the card, lengthening or
shortening the flight path, swapping the location of ingredients, requiring
fewer ingredients next time, forcing an opponent to play in a distorted
position, and so on. The first player to complete her three spells wins!
Baba Yaga includes
variants for younger players, more experienced players, and those who want the
chicken-legged house to be constantly on the move. In the two-player game, the
single opponent does all the moving of Baba Yaga, but must swap hands with each
move, keeping the inactive hand on her head.
2-5
players
Ages
6+
20
minute play time
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