Review: Mauna Kea
Posted by James (admin) on 12th December 2013
Mauna Kea is a game about explorers fleeing from an erupting volcano. This is not a co-operative game so players will be stepping over each other to take the boats along with as many artifacts as they can with them.
THE GAME
The board starts with many blank areas and the landscape will get filled in during the game. Landscape tiles (which get drawn from a bag) display 4 smaller squares which can each be of a different terrain type, plus each tile shows a number of movement points too.
Each turn, a player draws tiles from the bag until they have a total of 5 or more movement points. On their turn, players must use their tiles either for movement points to move their explorers, or for placing on blank areas of the board to reveal the landscape. Tiles with lava don’t count towards the player’s tiles and are immediately added to the matching lava flow (there are 4 different flows from the central volcano) and an arrow shows the direction too. Sometimes the lava flows split too.
Moving through water spaces costs more movement points than moving through jungle areas, and spaces containing mountains and lava block movement.
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