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Year Published
1995
# of Players:
2 − 4
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 4 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4 players
(5 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
30 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
10 and up
User Suggested Ages
8 and up
(2 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
No necessary in-game text
(4 voters) [poll]
Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Billabong
Alternate Names
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Families
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In this geometrical racing game players maneuver teams of kangaroos jumping around a Billabong ("a dead-end channel extending from the stream of a river," a term used in Australia). The board is made up of checkerboard-style squares around the billabong in the middle. On your turn you move one of your five kangaroos, usually moving it in a jump or series of jumps over the other kangaroos. Jumps can be long; if the kangaroo to be jumped over is five spaces away, for example, the landing space will be five spaces beyond. The other option, to move a kangaroo just one space, is usually used as a positioning tactic for a subsequent move. The first player to get all five kangaroos around the billabong and over the finish line wins.

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0 Billabong - Cyberboard Version
Cyberboard version including Gamebox and 4 player scenario. [imageid=534224original]
2009-08-05
3 [Espanol] Reglas Billabong
Traducido al Español por ArtEmiSa64 desde la traducción en ingles realizada por Mike Schloth. He incluido los diagramnas de los ejemplos contenidos en el reglamento original.
2008-04-11
4 Examples diagrams
Examples to be used with any language translation (For example with Game Cabinet's translation http://gamecabinet.com/rules/Billabong.html)
2008-04-11
0 billabong_Korean.pdf
Korean translation of the rules
2004-04-19
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 677
Num Ratings: 400
Average Rating: 6.87
Standard Deviation: 1.25
Num Views: 24333
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Avg. Game Weight: 2.0 moreinfo
Fans: 4
Personal Comments: 165
Users Owning: 382
Users Wanting: 41
Users Trading: 7
Has Parts For Trade: 1
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Total Plays: 482
Plays This Month: 1
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