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Ursuppe Expansion: Frisch Abgeschmeckt (Primordial Soup: Freshly Spiced)

Published by Doris & Frank, Germany

Import, price varies

Ursuppe (reviewed earlier in Pyramid) is a very fine, very fun game. The expansion, amazingly enough, makes it twice as fine, twice as fun! If you have Ursuppe, you must get this expansion. If you don't have Ursuppe, then you need to buy both the basic game and this expansion. What are you waiting for?

Freshly Spiced contains a fair bit of material for such a small box: two new colors of amoebas to play 5 or 6 players, the necessary foodstuffs and scoring stones for those amoebas, some Biological points in denominations of "2," more damage markers, two new sets of cards (!), and rules and enough players' aid sheets for six people. As with the original game, the rules, players' aid sheets, and backs of the cards are in English, ready to play.

The new cards: I said two new sets, and that's sort of accurate. You do get one set of 26 new genes, one card of each. These can be used with anywhere from three to six players. The other set of cards contains 39 gene cards, representing the same genes found in the original game, but in different quantities, and occasionally different costs and effects. These are strictly for use with five or six players -- use the old gene cards if playing with three or four players. But do add the new genes, even if using the old set -- they're a lot of fun!

At this point, I must put in a disclaimer. Some of . . .

This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.



Article publication date: December 18, 1998

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