Tortuga (2007)

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Designer	Vincent Everaert
Artist	Néstor Romeral Andrés
Publisher	Gigamic nestorgames
Year Published	2007
# of Players	2
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 2 players Recommended with 2 players (3 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	10 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	8 and up
User Suggested Ages	6 and up (1 voter) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (2 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain	Abstract Games (3 voters) [vote]
Category	Abstract Strategy Animals
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Family	Animals: Turtles Checkers Tube Games
Primary Name	Tortuga
Alternate Names	Tattoo Turtles
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This 2-player game is played on an hexagonal grid. Each player controls 8 turtles on his side of the board. The winner is the one who will send one of his turtles to the opponent's side.

Turtles can be moved one step forwards, or jump over other turtles. Jumping over an opponent's turtle neutralizes it, while jumping over a neutralized turtle activates it again - on either side.

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Tattoo Turtles is a variant of Tortuga by the same designer. In this variant, jumping over tattooed turtles will trigger some special effects.

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0	General Tortuga with Nestor and other variant rules	2011-09-22	GeoMan	6
3	News NESTORGAMES 2011	2011-09-12	n_r_a	1
1	News Zillions Implementation	2011-03-13	Dandolo	1
12	Reviews Draughty turtles?	2010-10-02	thepackrat	1
1	Rules Rules about forced captures	2010-10-02	thepackrat	2
1	Reviews Russian Review for Tortuga	2010-03-04	GarfSeth	0
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0	Rules the moves	2008-03-26	Talisinbear	9

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Player Aid for Gigamic edition owners to play with the Nestor variants.

Owners of Gigamic edition: Use this Player Aid and 2 yellow, 2 red, 2 blue and 2 green cubes if you want to be able to play the Nestor variants.

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Board Game Rank:	2729
Abstract Games Rank:	201
Num Ratings:	153
Average Rating:	6.37
Standard Deviation:	1.23
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Avg. Game Weight:	1.7
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Personal Comments:	47
Users Owning:	196
Users Wanting:	9
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Rules (English, PDF) from Back Alley Traders	http://www.backalleytraders.com/pdf/TORTUGA_USGB.p...	2011-10-12
Review on The Spiel #6 - Monkey Pirates	http://thespiel.net/?q=node/34	2011-05-12
Polish review at GamesFanatic.pl	http://www.gamesfanatic.pl/2009/04/09/wedrujace-zo...	2011-04-14
Russian rules	http://www.igroved.ru/games/gigamic/tortuga/rules_...	2010-11-11
French Videorules in "Dans la Tête de Yahndrev"	http://yahndrev.over-blog.fr/article-tortuga-la-re...	2010-05-03
French review and pictures on "Jeux de NIM"	http://www.jeuxdenim.be/jeu-Tortuga	2009-10-04
Nice review from Russia	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8kP45Orh4k	2009-06-29
German review on brettspiele-report.de	http://www.brettspiele-report.de/tortuga/	2008-06-27
Game Review in German on FantasyGuide.de	http://www.fantasyguide.de/4918.0.html	2008-04-06