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2016 Ranked #2,939

Kerala: The Way Of The Elephant

Tile-drafting festival game where players build colorful Kerala fairgrounds filled with decorated elephants. Each color must form its own connected area, so every tile must complete a beautiful display while preventing rivals from taking the pieces they need.

Family Games Abstract Strategy Animals Open Drafting Tile Placement

Players

2-5

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

1.75/5

Rating

6.85

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Welcome to the elephant festival in the Indian province of Kerala! Colorfully decorated elephants roam everywhere, and naturally players want to participate and make the most magnificent fairground with as many elephants as possible.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Open Drafting

Select cards or items from a shared face-up display.
Tile Placement

Place tiles to build a shared or personal spatial arrangement.
Read the full game description

Welcome to the elephant festival in the Indian province of Kerala! Colorfully decorated elephants roam everywhere, and naturally players want to participate and make the most magnificent fairground with as many elephants as possible. In Kerala, each player wants to take at least one tile of each color, and all tiles of one color should be joined together, but of course the players are constantly getting in the way of one another and grabbing the tiles that someone else wants.

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Type

1
Family Games

Category

2
Abstract Strategy Animals

Mechanism

2
Open Drafting Tile Placement

Family

3
Admin: Better Description Needed! Animals: Elephants Country: India

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–5
Best with
2–5
Play time
30 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.8/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Kirsten Hiese

Artists

2
Antje Stephan Claus Stephan

Publishers

2
KOSMOS SD Games

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