 Back cover of box illustrating game components | |
| Designers | Reiner Knizia |
|---|---|
| Publishers | Ravensburger |
| Players | 1-4 |
| Playing time | 30-45 minutes |
| Age range | 10 and up |
FITS (Fill In The Spaces) is a Tetris -like board game published by Ravensburger in 2009.
| Back cover of box illustrating game components | |
| Designers | Reiner Knizia |
|---|---|
| Publishers | Ravensburger |
| Players | 1-4 |
| Playing time | 30-45 minutes |
| Age range | 10 and up |
FITS (Fill In The Spaces) is a Tetris -like board game published by Ravensburger in 2009.
FITS is a board game for 1–4 players in which the players try to use their polyominoes to fill in blank spaces. [1]
Each player receives a player board, and a set of 16 playing pieces. The players insert the first cardboard insert onto their inclined player board, draw a Start card from the deck and place the corresponding piece at the bottom of the ramped board. [1]
In each of four rounds, the players draw a card from the deck, take the indicated shape, place it at the top of the board in the orientation desired, then pull the shape down to the bottom of the board. Once the shape has been placed at the top of the board, the player may not rotate the shape or shift it right or left of the original placement, but must pull it straight down. (The player can choose to pass if they feel a particular a piece will cause problems in fulfilling their objectives.) Each round ends when all players have drawn 16 cards from the Build deck. The round is then scored, and the players move on to the next round. [1]
The cardboard insert for Round 1 is covered with rows of dots. Like Tetris, the goal in the first round is to leave as few open spaces as possible. For every dot left uncovered, the player scores -1. For each complete row built, the player scores +1. [1]
The insert for Round 2 has dots, but also has some white circles with numbers in them. While still trying to cover the dots, the goal of Round 2 is to leave the white circles uncovered. At the end of the round, for each circle left uncovered, players score the amount indicated in the circle, while still receiving -1 for each dot left uncovered. [1]
The insert for Round 3 also has dots and white circles, but some of the circles now contain a -5. In addition to receiving -1 for uncovered dots, +1 for complete rows, and positive scores for leaving positive numbers uncovered, players receive -5 for each penalty circle left uncovered. [1]
In addition to dots, the insert also outlines two of the five shapes. In addition to the usual -1 for uncovered dots, and +1 for complete rows, players also receive either 3 points for keeping both shapes uncovered, -3 if only one shape is uncovered, or 0 points if both shapes are covered. [1]
At the end of four rounds, the player with the highest overall score wins the game. [1]
FITS was designed by Reiner Knizia, with artwork by KniffDesign and Piotr Kania, and was published by Ravensburger in 2009. It was subsequently published under license in other countries by Egmont Polska and White Goblin Games. [2]
On the German site Spielmonster, Dirk Trefzger, a self-admitted fan of Tetris, didn't like the rule that pieces could not be rotated or shifted left or right once they had started their descent, feeling that this made the game overly simplistic. Trefzger found the cardboard pieces were too thin, and the ramped boards too flimsy. He did admit that "Some players in the test rounds still found the game quite good. It's easy to explain, it's quick to play, you don't have to think hard." Nevertheless he concluded by giving the game a poor score of only 4 out of 10, calling it "a gap filler without any particular appeal." [3]
Michael Weber, reviewing the game for the German site Reich der Spiele, also found the playing pieces too flimsy. He did note that everyone liked playing one game of four rounds, but the game quickly lost its appeal after that. [4]
On the German game review site 4 Players, Jörg Luibi liked the game, saying, "It is easy to explain, plays quickly and [...] Because it is short and complex, it never gets boring." [1]
Java is a German-style board game designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling and published in 2000 by Ravensburger in German and by Rio Grande Games in English. It is illustrated by Franz Vohwinkel.
Scotland Yard is a board game in which a team of players controlling different detectives cooperate to track down a player controlling a criminal as they move around a board representing the streets of London. It was first published in 1983. It is named after Scotland Yard - the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police Service in real-life. Scotland Yard is an asymmetric board game, during which the detective players cooperatively solve a variant of the pursuit–evasion problem. The game is published by Ravensburger in most of Europe and Canada and by Milton Bradley in the United States. It received the Spiel des Jahres award in 1983 - the same year that it was published.
Reiner Knizia is a prolific German-style board game designer.
Mensch ärgere Dich nicht is a German board game, developed by Josef Friedrich Schmidt in 1907/1908. Some 70 million copies have been sold since its introduction in 1914 and it is played in many European countries.
Labyrinth is a board game for two to four players, published by Ravensburger in 1986.
Alan R. Moon is an author of board games, born in Southampton, England. He is generally considered to be one of the foremost designers of German-style board games. Many of his games can be seen as board game variations on the travelling salesman problem.
Rivers, Roads & Rails is a matching game similar to dominoes, but with 140 square tiles and in some respects similar to Bendomino. The game consists of square card pieces featuring different coloured tracks. The game was created by Ken Garland and Associates and first published in 1969 under the name Connect. Since 1982 it has been produced by Ravensburger, first in an abstract form, and since 1984 under the current theme with artwork by Josef Loeflath. It has also been known under the name Contact.
Journey through Europe or Explore Europe is a family board game in which the players travel around a map of Europe, rolling a die to move. When they have reached all their objective cities, they try to return home to win.
Perfection, originally produced by the Pennsylvania company Reed Toys, is a game by the Milton Bradley company. The object is to put all the pieces into matching holes on the board before the time limit runs out. When time runs out, the board springs up, causing many, if not all, of the pieces to fly out. In the most common version, there are 25 pieces to be placed into a 5×5 grid within 100 seconds.
Britannia is a strategy board game, first released and published in 1986 by Gibsons Games in the United Kingdom, and The Avalon Hill Game Company in 1987 in the United States, and most recently updated in late 2008 as a re-release of the 2005 edition, produced by Fantasy Flight Games. It broadly depicts the wars in, and migrations to, the island of Great Britain in the centuries from the Roman invasions to the Norman Conquest.
Drunter und Drüber is a multiplayer board game invented by Klaus Teuber, first published in 1991 in Germany by Hans im Glück. A second edition was released in 1994 by Hans im Glück and featured art by Franz Vohwinkel. The game was repackaged and rethemed as the western game Wacky Wacky West in 2010.
Bendomino is a tabletop strategy game similar to dominoes, created by Thierry Denoual and published by Blue Orange Games in 2007. It is a set of double-6 dominoes with a 120-degree curve. The main difference from dominoes is the curved shape of the pieces, which introduces a new level of strategy to the game. There is also a version of the game for younger players with pictures instead of numbers and symbols on the bendomino tiles.
Agricola is a Euro-style board game created by Uwe Rosenberg. It is a worker placement game with a focus on resource management. In Agricola, players are farmers that sow, plow the fields, collect wood, build stables, buy animals, expand their farms and feed their families. After 14 rounds players calculate their score based on the size and prosperity of the household.
6 Nimmt! / Take 6! is a card game for 2–10 players designed by Wolfgang Kramer in 1994 and published by Amigo Spiele. The French version is distributed by Gigamic. This game received the Deutscher Spiele Preis award in 1994.
No Thanks! is a card game for three to seven players designed by Thorsten Gimmler. Originally called Geschenkt! and published by Amigo Spiele in 2004, it was translated into English by Z-Man Games.
Ubongo is a board game developed by Polish-born Swedish game designer Grzegorz Rejchtman. It originally appeared as Pyramidens Portar by the Swedish publisher Kärnan and won the Swedish Årets spel prize in 2003. The game was later released in Germany in 2005 as Ubongo by the publisher Kosmos and got 4th place at the German board game competition and was among the finalists in the International Gamers Award.
Mojo is a two-player, 3 in-a-row abstract strategy board game played with original and unique "thrice-sliced-dice". The pieces, handmade to order in India, are colored with non-toxic vegetable dye. The individual opposite ends of the pieces are marked with pips and numbered similar to regular dice - i.e. they total 7. It takes all 3 pieces of a color to make up a single die.
Galaxy Trucker is a science-fiction board game for two to four players. The game was developed by Vlaada Chvatil, with graphics designed by Radim Pech. The Czech version of the game was released in 2007 by Czech Games Edition, and a German version was published in the same year by Heidelberger Spieleverlag.
Las Vegas is a board game designed by Rüdiger Dorn and published by Ravensburger in 2012. It is named after the city of Las Vegas in Nevada, United States and has a gambling theme. The game was nominated for the Spiel des Jahres prize in 2012 and won the Årets Spel prize in the Best Adult Game category in 2013.
Azul is an abstract strategy board game designed by Michael Kiesling and released by Plan B Games in 2017. Based on Portuguese tiles called azulejos, in Azul players collect sets of similarly colored tiles which they place on their player board. When a row is filled, one of the tiles is moved into a square pattern on the right side of the player board, where it garners points depending on where it is placed in relation to other tiles on the board.
 | This board game-related article or section is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |