Kloak

Bought this for my dad because he and my mom love games. It’s very challenging, but fun. The product is great quality. A bit big to store, but I do love the wooden set.

The idea of the game is interesting. You can hide (cloak) a smaller piece with an adjacent bigger piece, slide a piece (small or big) to one of the eight adjacent spaces (and if sliding a big piece, you won't know whether there's a small piece under it or not, if you don't remember from earlier in the game), or lift a big piece (possibly revealing a small piece underneath) and place it on an adjacent space. And of course if you're cloaking a small piece there is a chance you may inadvertently UNcloak a small piece when you lift the big piece to move it.The goal of the game is to get three in a row of the same color small pieces in any direction, and uncloak them (after which you remove those three pieces from the board). If you go for it too straightforwardly one of your opponents may realize what you're doing and uncloak the three in a row that YOU assembled, and get that set for himself or herself. So there is an element of attempting to misdirect the opponent(s) or get them to lose track, which can include bluffing by moving unrelated pieces. Meanwhile, you're trying to keep track of where all the pieces are that your opponents are moving around. Since the game doesn't end until one player gets TWO sets of three in a row the same color, it doesn't end too quickly and there is some room for things to get interesting.So yes, a good game. Much more about memory and misdirection than about strategy per se, which you should be aware of.Then there is also the quality of the physical game itself. It is really beautifully done and very high quality, both board and pieces, and even the box for the whole game and the bag for the pieces are good quality as well. I definitely feel I got my money's worth and I'm very happy with the purchase.

This game was a great addition to our family game nights. My 6yo tries to beat me with no luck ;-) This game is a fantastic exercise for memory for both kids and adults. Great find!

Very fun, easy to learn strategy+memory game. Great for older kids and adults. My 13-year-old caught on very quickly and loves to play it with me or her dad. We also love to play it together for at-home date nights. For comparison I would say the game is like if checkers and a memory game had a baby. Highly recommend!

The game involves hiding the colored pieces under the larger wooden ones (hence the name Kloak). Some of the wooden ones in our set were not hollowed out enough and we can see the color showing, but I have young kids and don't really mind them having that small advantage.

Played with my 8 yr old grandson at first wasn’t interested but then he wanted to play and play worth every penny

Really nice wooden game. The rules took us a bit to figure out, but once we got it, the kids kept wanting to come back to it. Great memory game and really good looking too, so we just left it out on our table.

This game takes alot of focus, its difficult to play with 4 people you need to keep your eyes on the board at all times and many ties happen