In case you haven't absorbed enough Ubongotude over the past six years, Kosmos brings you this new title from Grzegorz Rejchtman. In the original Ubongo, each player had her own set of tiles, a subset of which she'd use to cover the designated space on the random puzzle card that she had drawn. With Ubongo 3-D you now stack pieces so that you create not one, but two solid layers of bits over that round's floor plan -- with nothing overhanging on that upper level and within the minute ticked off by the hourglass. The first player to finish a board receives a sapphire and a random gem from the bag, the second player receives an amber gem, and other players who finish within the time limit draw only a random gem. The player with the most valuable gem collection after nine rounds wins.

As with other Ubongo titles, Ubongo 3-D comes with both easy and difficult puzzle cards. Unlike previous games, however, the building materials are all wood instead of cardboard.

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