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THE GHOST MILL

Carry FLour Sacks without being frightened!

The old miller is tired and hopes for assistance, the children will help him to carry the flour sacks out of the mill. You place the millwheel into the box, the game board is set on top of the wheel and then you stick the full sacks of flour into the slits of the board. Each player is given a magnetic token and three empty flour sacks. In your turn you roll the dice and then either move your token the number of steps from one die or the total of both dice, in any direction. If your target spot is occupied you move your token forward to the next free spot. When you roll the mill wheel you turn the wheel one or two times in the direction indicated by the arrows. If your turn ends next to one of your own flour sacks you can pick the sack upand place it onto your token. If you reach your own home corner with the sack you can put it down, the flour ack is safe now. Then you put one of your own empty flour sacks into the empty slit. If you are the first to take home all three of your own flour sacks, you win.

This game, The Ghost Mill, lovingly continues the range of games that once started with Geistertreppe / Boo Who, topic and illustrations are similar, but nicely individual and different and with a felicitous use of magnetism. It is fun to watch the tokens jump when they are frightened by ghosts and drop their flour sacks. The basic mechanism of the game is closely related to well-working standards like Ludo, but his is not a disadvantage. On the contrary, it makes the game fun to play and it is fun to try to avoid the ghosts, if you look closely you can spot them moving by.

Players         : 2-4

Age             : 5+

Duration       : 25+

Designer      : Thomas Daum, Violetta Leitner

Artist           : Rolf Vogt

Price            : ca. 24 Euro

Publisher      : Drei Magier 2011

Web             : www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre          : Magnetic game of roll and move

Users           : For children

Version        : multi

Rules           : de en fr it nl

In-game text : no

Comments    :

Nice supplement for the “Ghost” range of games * Good combination of mechanisms *Art coherent with games of the series

Compares to : Ludo for the basic mechanism, Beppo Bock and other games for use of magnetism

Other editions: currently none

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