Drunter und Drüber is a multiplayer board game

Board game

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 invented by Klaus Teuber

Klaus Teuber

Klaus Teuber is a German designer of board games. He won the Spiel des Jahres award four times, for The Settlers of Catan, Barbarossa, Drunter und Drüber and Adel Verpflichtet. He retired from his profession as a dental technician to become a full-time game designer in 1999. , he lives in ...

, first published in 1991

1991 in games

This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and table-top role-playing games published in 1991. For video and console games, see 1991 in video gaming.-Game awards given in 1991:* Spiel des Jahres: Drunter und Drüber...

 in Germany

Germany

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 by Hans im Glück

Hans im Glück

Hans im Glück Verlags-GmbH is a German board and card game publisher. Though many of their own games are language-independent they themselves publish only printings for the domestic market which include only German-language rules; English-language printings of their games have been published...

. A second edition was released in 1994 by Hans im Glück and featured art by Franz Vohwinkel

Franz Vohwinkel

Franz Vohwinkel is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.-Works:Vohwinkel drew the cover art for the book Dataware for TSR's Alternity game, and illustrated cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game...

. Drunter und Drüber translates to "over and under" although the phrase "topsy-turvy" may be more appropriate.

Gameplay

Players take on the role of the people of Schilda and work to build a new town after they burned down their old one to get rid of a dreaded mouse-dog. Buildings are already completed and each player is secretly assigned one of six types of buildings, that each appear five times on the board. Buildings closer to the center of the board have a higher point value. Each player is given an identical set of vote cards that are worth varying degrees of yes or no. Every turn, players lay down tiles of streets, rivers, and town walls which add on to existing pieces. Buildings can be covered by tiles, but when someone attempts to build over an outhouse everyone votes on whether to allow it or not. If there are more negative votes, the tile does not get played. Each player tries to keep his or her buildings uncovered. The game ends when all the pieces have been placed or all players pass consecutively; then everyone tallies their score from their remaining buildings on the map and the player with the highest score wins.

Reviews

• Review by Doug Adams
• Review by Debbie Pickett
• Review from Sumo, Issue 5, June 1991

External links

• Drunter und Drüber at Luding.org
• Rules of Drunter und Drüber at GameCabinet.com