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Ponder box art
2010 Ranked #21,224

Ponder

A frog racing game has players lay lily pads and use movement cards to guide a team across a crowded pond. Card limits restrict each jump, so building a route at the right time gets a team across first.

Animals Children's Game Hand Management Animals: Frogs / Toads

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

7+

Complexity

1/5

Rating

5.53

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.9/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.1/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Welcome to the Pond! You are just in time for the annual frog race.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Hand Management

Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
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Welcome to the Pond! You are just in time for the annual frog race. The distance is "one English pond", and your goal in Ponder is to get your team to the other side of the pond before everyone else. Your frogs can't jump clear from one side of the pond to the other, however, so you'll need to lay down lily pads so that they can cross the water. Since the pond is so crowded with frogs, you can move only as the cards tell you to. In game terms, each turn you can take one of three actions: 1. Place new lily pads. 2. Move one of your frogs by playing a card. 3. Draw a card.

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Category

3
Animals Children's Game Racing

Mechanism

1
Hand Management

Family

1
Animals: Frogs / Toads

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2
Play time
45 min
Age
7+
Complexity
1.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Isabel Holmberg

Publishers

4
Carrom Art Mindtwister AB Mindtwister USA Piatnik

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