Snails

Snails is a combat game for 2 to 4 players. You lead a team of inflated snails with your own leader. That leader gives your team a special ability. With bazookas, mines and other funny weapons you try to eliminate the snails of the others.

You fight on islands of loose tiles. The board is 3D and changes during the game. By digging and shooting the islands crumble, and a snail that falls into the water takes damage. The game is inspired by the video game Worms and has cheerful drawings by Djib Reynaud.

You all plan at the same time, and then you see what happens. A round goes like this:

• Draw a card: you draw a new action card.
• Plan: you secretly lay down five action cards and choose two snails that will carry them out.
• Execute: the cards are revealed and carried out one by one. You move, dig, shoot, or bash.
• Water: a snail that is in the water takes damage.

Example: you plant a shot on one of your neighbor's snails. But that snail has already moved or been eliminated before your card's turn. Then you miss. That's part of it.

You win if your team still has snails at the end. If it's still not decided after six rounds, the player with the most snails on the board wins.

• Planning and still being surprised You come up with a clever plan, but in the meantime, the others change the board. That leads to a lot of laughter.
• Disappearing islands The board falls apart during the game. Under the tiles you sometimes find new items, but also nasty traps.
• Every game is different You have six teams with their own abilities and a lot of different cards. You rarely play the same game twice.