Review on 🧩 HABA Karuba: The Highly Addictive Puzzle Game from Germany by David Pullen

Bought after playing at a game night in the parks department. We have a very logical 6 year old who loves games and has learned katana, chess and cadavers. This game, although random, really makes you think about how to place randomly drawn tiles to get to the temple/treasure first. The rules are very simple and the game only lasts about 20 minutes. With 3 players, it's interesting to see that we can start placing the first 3 tiles in the same place, but after that everything was very different. We test strategies: first build a road to get the highest score if you reach the temple first, then deal with an inefficient road system to get to the others, not slow and smart, but maybe not all highest points. It also depends on the strategy of the other players because you want to get to the temple first to get the most points. Even though you don't directly interact with your players on the same board as others, that makes it interesting as it has almost no defensive moves, just offensive ones. Then the question always arises, do you move with tiles before the road is finished, or do you finish the roads and then move? You will decide.