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Tornado Alert!

Tornado Alert!

Hyptic · 2010
2–630 min8+ yrs2.0/5 complexity5.3 BGG51CouplesFamily
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How do you play Tornado Alert!?

From the back of the game box: Calling all fearless photographers! We are today heading for Oklahoma City where the first ever Tornado Spotting World Championships are about to begin.

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Tornado Alert! box art
official art · Hyptic

From the back of the game box:

Calling all fearless photographers! We are today heading for Oklahoma City where the first ever Tornado Spotting World Championships are about to begin. Extreme weather is expected, accompanied by even more extreme photographers. Speed, split-second timing, calculated risk-taking and outsmarting the competition are your tickets to victory!

Original version: Object of the game from the first page of rulebook:

The players compete for three rounds then see who, on average, has taken the best tornado photos. The higher the number of points from the photos, the better. The higher the number of card, the more dangerous the photographer's location depicted, so it's important to make the right decisions during the game. At the end of each round, the players determine their average score of the photos taken in their points pile using the averages table. Each round ends when the Game Over card is picked up. After the third round, each player's lowest average score of the three is selected and the player with the highest of these lowest scores is the winner.

Second Edition changes game as follows:

Players no more try to get highest average during three rounds. Instead, they try to get as much points as possible during each round and players can play any number of rounds as well. This makes averages table obsolete in second edition. Some card functions are also streamlined to make game play faster and more intuitive. Rules of the second edition are only in english and finnish.

The game box contains:

75 cards (21 different types of) 15 +1/-1 markers 1 two-sided score table 1 score pad (50 pages) Includes German, French, English, Dutch, Swedish and Finnish rules.

game anatomy
Complexity2.0 / 5
BGG rating5.3 / 10
Vibe
CouplesFamily
Language dependence
No in-game text needed
🌐 plays without English
Play time
30 min
Players
2–6
Recommended age
8+ yrs
from Trișache · verified

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Q3How do you play Tornado Alert!?
Tornado Alert! is a action / dexterity game, for 2–6 players, taking ~30 minutes, featuring hand management. Check the Rules tab for setup, gameplay, and scoring, or ask Trișache anything about Tornado Alert! — our AI assistant built by howtoplay.ro and trained specifically on board game rulebooks.
Q4How many players does Tornado Alert! support?
Tornado Alert! is played by 2–6 players.
Q5How long does a game of Tornado Alert! take?
A game of Tornado Alert! takes about 30 minutes. (The first game doesn't count. It never counts.)
Q6What age is Tornado Alert! for?
Tornado Alert! is recommended from age 8.
Q7How complex is Tornado Alert!?
Tornado Alert! has a BoardGameGeek complexity of 2.0 out of 5.
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