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May bug and Southern Wood Ant

The cards in the game show ladybugs and other beetles and insects and players must recognize and find them by their contours. Each card has a black/white search side and a colored side. The cards are stacked search side up and each player draws a card and lays it out search side up. Then the top card from the stack is turned over and placed in the middle. This side of the card now shows three colored insects. Each player checks his own search card; if his card shown an insect that is also depicted on the insect-card in the middle, he knocks on the middle card, but only if the insect that is crossed out on his search card is not depicted on the insect card. If you are correct you get the insect card, turn it over to the black/white search side and use it as your new search card.

If you make a mistake you must discard your bottom search card together with the current insect card; if you have only one search card, only the insect card is discarded. For the next round the player who was fastest turns up the top card from the stack. When nobody can knock the insect card because there is no correlation, the insect card is also discarded. When all cards have been played you win with most cards.

Players of ages 3+ draw a card in turn and compare it with their own. If there is a correlation you keep the card, otherwise the card is discarded and the turn passes to the next player.

As we can always expect from Adlung’s children games, this game, too, is a simple game with very few rules, the wit and the enticement come from the topic and its implementation, no belittlement, but real-life, interesting insects!

Players: 2-6

Age: 3+, 6+

Time: 15+

Designer: Jürgen Michel

Artist: Claudia Fior

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Adlung Spiele 2011

Web: www.adlung-spiele.de

Genre: Spotting game

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Real insect images

Simple spotting mechanism

Two levels of difficulty

Compares to:

All spotting games using shadows or contours

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 0