Mondo (2011)

In Mondo, players compete against each other while also racing against the clock. Each player has a small world board with empty spaces on it, and all players simultaneously pick tiles depicting different animals and environments from the middle of the table and place them on their world board, trying to create complete areas of the same environment. A new tile must be placed next to an already placed tile, but the environmental borders don't have to match. (These errors will earn negative points when the board is scored.)

When the timer runs out, players score bonus points for each animal and each completed environment and score negative points for volcanic tiles, empty fields on the world board and mismatched tiles (for example, a tile with a forest border connecting with a tile with a water border).

Mondo includes three degrees of difficulty, in addition to additional goals and ways to achieve (and lose) bonus points, as well as rules for solo play.

Home Page & Newsletter:

• www.mondo-game.com

(German and english)

Components:

• 4 World boards
• 136 Landscape tiles
• 4 Bonus chips
• 1 Volcano chip
• 5 Score modifiers
• 12 Additional tasks
• 1 Timer
• 1 Block with score sheets
• 1 Rules manual

Making of

• BoardGameGeek News

Microbadges

• Mondo fan
• Mondo fan

Awards and Recommendations

• 2011 Årets Familiespill (Family Game of the Year, Norway), Winner
• 2011 Guldbrikken - Family Game Of The Year Denmark, Winner
• 2012 Spel Van Het Jaar Nederland (Game of the Year, The Netherlands), Nomination
• 2011 Empfehlungsliste "Spiel des Jahres"
• 2011 "Deutscher Spielepreis", 6th Place
• 2011 Nomination "Vuoden Peli" , category Family Game
• 2011 Spieleblitzlicher
• 2011 Pfefferkuchel, Top Ten
• 2011 Fairplay - Best Game List Autumn, Winner
• 2012 Game by Game, Recommendation

Online Play

• http://www.brettspielwelt.de (realtime)
• http://www.boardgames-online.net (variant "Mondo Solo", turn based)

Small Expansions:

• Mondo: Das Duell

Variants

• Mondo Solo