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Tales & Games: The Pied Piper box art
2016 Ranked #7,994

Tales & Games: The Pied Piper

A family strategy game has players keep rats out of their own homes by sending them to neighbors. Overcrowded houses drive occupants away, so the best defense is carefully redirecting the growing infestation.

Family Games Children's Game Action Queue Player Elimination Containers: Book-like

Players

2-5

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

1.38/5

Rating

6.30

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

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?

Tales & Games: The Pied Piper is the sixth title in Purple Brain Creations' Tales & Games series. You live in Hamelin, a town infested by rats.

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Tales & Games: The Pied Piper is the sixth title in Purple Brain Creations' Tales & Games series. You live in Hamelin, a town infested by rats. The easiest way to get the rats out of your house is to send them to your neighbors. Whenever too many rats are jammed into a house, its occupants get desperate and move out! The player who can best keep the rats out of his house wins!

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Play and group

Players
2–5
Best with
3–5
Play time
20 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.4/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Agnès Largeaud

Artists

1
Mathieu Leyssenne

Publishers

1
Purple Brain Creations

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