Playing The News Five Tribes
Channel: The Happy Luza
Date: 2016-12-03

The Happy Luza jumps from the Dutch Black Piet, to playing Five Tribes.

Hi guys,

We in Holland, celebrate Saint Nicholas. A childrens feast, where a centurys old man, leaves his home in Spain per steamboat, to enter each city and on national tv in big parades, to hand out gifts and treats to all the children in the Netherlands. 
But he doesn´t do this by himself, he has help. So from mid November untill december fifth, walking around the Netherlands,  you are bound to be confronted with the Companions of Saint Nicholas: Black Piet´s. All dressed up in colorfull renaissance attire and as tradition tells us: with black face make-up. Black, because they deliver the presents for the children, through the chimneys. With big red lips, and earrings that symbolise slavery. 

The first time someone mentioned that depicting saint Nicholas´s companion like that, is a form of racism, was back in 1965, but a very big part of my oh so tolerant country fiercly refuses to adjust to worldly, "decent", standards.

This year for the first time ever, all dutch tv networks agreed to change the color of black Pete´s skin. Showing white, rainbowcolored, or stroopwafel  Pieten. But still a huge majority of the Dutch city´s, use public money to keep a tradition alive that should have been changed decades ago.

This week I am playing a game that originally had no problem with letting you buy slaves to get ahead in the game. But soon offered replacements and called them fakirs. 
This week I am playing: Five Tribes.

In 5 Tribes, each turn starts with a bidding round for player order. And than, in turn, players start moving colored tribe meeples around the board, in a Mancala like motion: You pick up all tribesman in one area, and drop them off one by one. The color of the last meeple you place in an area determines the tribe-action you activate. And the amount of that last colored tribesman allready in that area, determines the strength of that action. Those "used" meeples are removed from the board. If you manage to clear an area that way, you can claim ownership of the area. But if you did not manage to clear the tile of meeples, you can still perform the tile action.  giving you different possibilities to make extra points.

The game is definitly fun to play. But if all players want to make the best out of every turn, chances are there will be a lot of downtime, while players go over every possible move out there. I know this was a very very short overview of the game, but maybe enough to let you try it out. 5 Tribes!

My name is Dave Luza,

Thanx for watching.


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