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River Crossing

Cross the river Over Stump and trunk

One of the better-known solitaire logic games was re-published this year by Thinkfun and their German distributor, HCM Kinzel, featuring a new design and new tasks; with the help of 20 tree-stumps and 6 tree trunks you must transport your lumber man across the river to the other bank. In order to do so you choose one of 40 task cards in four different levels of difficulty, Beginner, Advances, Professional and Expert. The rules expressively recommend doing the puzzles in numerical order to make optimum use of the training provided. You place the task card into the frame and stick the stumps into the holes. The trunks are placed on the marked positions between the stumps, the lumber man starts on the marked stump. Now you must rearrange the trunks; but you can only move a trunk that touches a stump on which the lumber man currently stands, and of course you can only use those trunks that are provided at the start of the puzzle. The trunks are of different length and the lumber man can also carry one trunk along another one. Trunks cannot cross each other and you may not remove a trunk from the frame to avoid crossing, you can only relocate them, not take them off the board. The lumber man cannot jump across water from one tree stump to another.

Sounds deceptively simple, but in the 3^rd and 4^th level, especially the expert one, you meet quite some problems; you really must be able to think around corners and sometimes move back in order to place a trunk where you need them. A well-done training for logic, spatial thinking and imagination, as you have to plan ahead several steps.

Players: 1

Age: 8+

Time: var

Designer: Andrea Gilbert

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 18 Euro

Publisher: HCM Kinzel 2011

Web: www.hcm-kinzel.eu

Genre: Logic puzzle

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Version: multi

Rules: de fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition with revised design

Tasks in four levels of difficulties

Trains planning ahead and spatial thinking

Compares to:

Other logic puzzles on forming paths

Other editions:

English edition at Thinkfun

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