Mondo Sapiens (2012)

About this game

Mondo Sapiens is a tile-laying puzzle game along the lines of Michael Schacht's Mondo, with players laying down tiles simultaneously in order to populate their worlds (i.e., individual player boards) with people, buildings and roads. the faster you go, the more points you'll score - assuming you placed everything correctly, of course. Mondo Sapiens includes three levels of difficulty to allow inexperienced and advanced players to compete at roughly the same level. Online Game www.boardgames-online.net (turn-based, at the designers' website) Recommendations Im Rampenlicht Nürnberg 2012 Home Page & Newsletter: www.mondo-game.com (german and english)

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 1 to 4. It has a designed solo mode.
• Rules load. At 2.0/5 this is a mid-weight game — expect a proper rules explanation before you start.
• Age. The publisher suggests 8 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.