Terra Nova

by Winning Moves

Product Features

• Claim more land than your rival and you will seize the victory
• Includes colorful game board
• Two to four player
• Contains 88 border stones, 44 pioneer playing pieces and 4 scoring counters
• Fast paced strategy game

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 1.5 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000IXNIUI
• Item model number: 7003
• Manufacturer recommended age: 13 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #69,551 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Players lead nations in this new world where the most valuable resource is the land itself. Players place boundry pieces with each move in an attempt to "wall-off" a piece of Terra Nova. Imported from German game company.

Product Description

Ready, set, your boundaries that is. A strategic game from Europe with an elegantly simple rule set. Players lead nations in this new world where the most valuable resource is the land itself. The clever system of movement and boundary building gives you the tools you need as you wall-off a piece of Terra Nova. However, it is your strategic vision that will ultimately decide whether or not you will rule the land. Contains game board, 88 border stones, 44 pioneer playing pieces, and 4 scoring counters. For 2-4 players. Ages 13 and up.

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Plan some down-time for your brain afterward, May 23, 2011

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Tactitles (Missouri) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Terra Nova (Toy)

Here's a simple game to learn. You have a board with different terrain types printed on it, arranged in lines of hex spaces. Each player gets a set of people markers. On your turn you take any three game actions you like. The first must be a movement of one meeple (person marker). You may move any number of open connected spaces, in a straight line. No jumping over other markers, and no sharing spaces. After the first movement, other actions that can be taken in any order are:

1. Another movement of the same marker you moved, or any other that you have on the board

2. Place a wooden stone marker adjacent to the last meeple you moved

The object is to enclose an area of the board with stone markers, and to have more meeples in the enclosed area when it is completed. If the area surrounded consists of 3 or less terrain types, then it is scored. Points are awarded to the player with the most meeples in that area, and then all meeples there are removed from the game. Play continues until all areas on the board are divided into enclosed areas, until only one player can make a move, or until one player runs out of meeples on the board. The winner is the player with the most points at that time.

This is a brain burner of a game, to be sure. There is virtually no luck involved, as results are based solely on what you do with your game actions. It is pure strategy, and if you do not enjoy abstract strategy games, you will not like this. Like Chess, if you play someone who analyzes every possibility, the game will bog down a bit. There are no cards and no dice. It is just you and your meeples and stones, and you have to gain points while avoiding trapping yourself or being trapped by other players and losing your meeples. Trapping yourself can also be a favorable strategy if you have a sizeable lead, and you want to end the game. I like it. But you have to be mentally sharp when you play. That eliminates a lot of possible time for me. My mental skills are more like a blunt object than a sharp one. I'll play, earn a few points, watch as others do things I never would have thought of, and then reach for a game with some old fashioned luck. Then you had better watch out.

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Terra Nova - Game for all, April 27, 2008

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David B. Anderson "Just_David_A" (Annex, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Terra Nova (Toy)

I bought this game thinking that it was one that I'd had when I was little and I wanted to share it with my niece. Unfortunately, I was wrong! This wasn't the game from my youth. Now the good news. It turns out that it was still a decent game. It is easy enough to learn for even very young children to be able to play, but still has enough strategic challenge to make it interesting for the adults. This probably wouldn't have been a game I would have purchased had I not checked it out as carefully as I usually do, but it turns out to have been worth the price I paid.