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Amazon.com Search | |  | Rio Grande | Home » » » Fast Flowing Forest Fellers | | | | | | | Description: | | Daring lumberjacks meet at the river to begin their traditional contest of the fastest log riders. With skillful maneuvers they try to beat-out their competitors to get ahead in this running of the river. Sometimes you want to move ahead quickly and other times you want to block others in your race to be the first across the finish. Each player controls small group of lumberjacks and competes with the other players to bring his group across the finish first. | | | Features: | |
• For 2-5 players
• Takes about 30 minutes to play
• Fun family game
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 14.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 10.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 2.0 inches | | Package Length:
| 14.6 inches | | Package Width:
| 10.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.05 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 3 reviews |
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3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Fast Flowing Fun For Your FamilyOct 27, 2010
By Trent Howell
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1I2H4KCZ7IKUL Have you ever wondered how you'd do in a lumberjack, log rolling competition? Ok, so maybe everyone doesn't think of such things. But don't worry, there isn't any log rolling in Fast Flowing Forest Fellers anyway. But this fun family board game does make you wonder what a lumberjack really does all day.
Well, whatever life as a real lumberjack would bring, we're sure it isn't full of just racing down the river. And that's too bad. Because racing your lumberjacks down the rivers in Fast Flowing Forest Fellers is great family fun.
We know there are a number of racing themed board games, but let's just say lumberjack racing rocks.
Our whole family enjoys playing Fast Flowing Forest Fellers (and not just because the name of the game is fun to say over and over). Like many other racing board games, it's a very simple game concept that kids of any age can grasp: Get your pieces to the other side of the board first. But Fast Flowing Forest Fellers is not so simple that the older kids and adults won't have any fun.
Fast Flowing Forest Fellers strikes a great balance between strategy and luck which makes for a great family board game. The luck comes into play when you're drawing random cards to play from. The strategy comes into play as you choose which card you're going to play and how you'll use the layout of the rivers to your advantage.
With a number of lumberjacks making their way down the river of logs and currents, there is plenty of interplay between the players. We always have a lot of bumping of lumberjacks into currents to send them floating backward which creates some fun challenges. And dad always has to watch out because there must not be anything more fun in the world than sending your dad backward in a race.
You can read more about our impressions on our family game review site TheBoardGameFamily.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Fabulous and Fascinating Floating Fun For Families and Friends From the Famous Friedemann FrieseAug 03, 2011
By Godly Gadfly
There are several things that game designer Friedemann Friese seems to have a special passion for. The first is things that are green. Including hair. The second is the letter F. Preferably with a high degree of alliteration. This is the guy who has designed games like Fische Fluppen Frikadellen, Falsche FuFFziger, Fearsome Floors, and Funkenschlag. In fact, about half his games begin with the letter F! Presumably this is some kind of family tradition evident already when his parents named him at birth. Or maybe he needs to do this in order to be eligible for the family inheritance, or it goes along with the secret handshakes at his local game club. Well I really don't care whether his hair is green or if he has the letter F tattooed under his feet and behind both ears, because anyone who has designed so many great games, including one that's regarded as one of the very best of modern games (Power Grid), deserves some serious respect! And now our prolific green machine has added a fresh F-lettered title to his impressive array of green games: Fast Flowing Forest Fellers.
Fast Flowing Forest Fellers is a race game, but of a more casual and family-friendly sort. Players are racing to get their two lumberjacks to the end of the river the quickest. It's card driven, but features lovely components, even lumberjack meeples, who are riding logs and must dodge various obstacles and shove other players aside while taking advantage of river currents in their quest to get to the end first.
This really is a terrific racing game that has a lot to offer. The components are good quality, colourful, and very attractive. The rules are easy to learn and explain. The game-play is appropriate for a wide range of players, both old and young, gamers and non gamers, making it very suitable for families. The play time isn't excessive, and it's perfect for a game of this weight. The theme is immersive, and matched by the tension of the game-play. There's strong interaction, without being too nasty. The different board configurations offers high replayability. It has a very high fun factor, which is all too important in this sort of game.
In short, Fast Flowing Forest Fellers has all the essential elements of being a terrific family game, and also has proven to be a big hit with non-gamers! Given the quick play time and strong interaction, it is also suitable as a filler type game for gamers. So the beauty of this game is that it will work well in so many groups or settings, including adults and children. With Few Failures, Friedemann Friese's "Fast Flowing Forest Fellers" Features Fearless and Frolicking Forest Fellers Flowing Furiously Fast, and offers Fabulous Floating Fun For Families and Friends. Fantastic! - EndersGame @ BGG
Simple, yet fun, racing gameSep 29, 2011
By The PakRat
"the-pakrat"
This is a simple yet fun racing game. You have to race 2 people down the river before your opponents get their two people down the river. There are multiple race courses that you can piece together giving you different rivers every game. There are also logs that clog the river, and also float down the river with you. While it's a simple racing game, there is a mild bit of strategy involved in whether to decide to race both your loggers down the river quickly, or race one, and leave one behind and clog your opponents ways at the river bends. This is a pretty good family game that I think kids can pick up quickly. And it's quirky, in that not everyone in the world will have it, but can learn it easily.
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