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Bonbons

Blue jelly beans and pink lollies

Some games attract your attention because of their title, others because of their packing, in Bonbons both factors apply – the attractive box in its nostalgic design and the title arouse curiosity.

In the game eight different kinds of candies in four colors come into play, lovingly and nostalgically pictured once on 32 square tiles and once on 32 round tiles. The square tiles are shuffled with three coin tiles and one empty wrapper tile and then laid out in a square grid. Each player is dealt four round tiles face-down(!) and must match them with the corresponding square tiles from the grid. In you turn you must turn over a square tile in the grid and can then turn over one of your own round tiles. When both pictures are identical you leave them face-up and have another turn. You may also choose to first turn up a round tile and then a square one. If you turn up the square one first you can pass on turning up a round tile in order to avoid revealing it to other players, because: if you believe that the necessary round tile equal to a square one you just turned up is among another player’s round tiles you may turn this one up; if it fits you keep it and give back one of your face-down round tiles. If you uncover coins you have two tries to find the other two; if you do so you place them on one of your still unrevealed round tiles, this is now considered to be matched and safe. If you find the wrapper you draw a fifth round tile. If you are first to match all your round tiles you win.

Bonbons is a cute and very beautiful version of a memo game and a very attractive filler game for the whole family.

Players: 2-6

Age: 7

Time: 20+

Designer: Marc André

Artist: Matthieu Leysenne

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: GameWorks 2011

Web: www.gameworks.ch

Genre: Memo game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Goal of the game different from standard memo games

Very attractive design

Basically simple rules

Good family game

Compares to:

All memo games with a goal other than having most pairs

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 4

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0