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COUNTING WITH Willi!

Willy the Mole sorts and counts his finds, players help him. The game comprises 50 cards featuring numbers One to Ten, each number five times and with another item in the respective amount. The cards are laid out in rows, ideally from One to Ten, but always without a gap. In each row an item can only appear on one card.

The starting display is made up from three cards of value One and of one card of value Two, which you sort out from the pack and put on the table according to the rules. The remaining cards are shuffled and each player is dealt five cards; the rest is split into two stacks and set down face down. In your turn you must place a card from your hand according to the rules into a row - featuring the next number and another item than on all the cards already in the row - or you must start a new row with a card of value One. The number on the card you place must be announced and you draw a card. If you cannot place a card or start a row you set aside one of your cards and announce it. Take care not to set aside too many cards of the same value, players can check any time what was set aside so far! If all players together manage to lay out a minimum of two rows from One to Ten, all players have won together. In a variant players are tasked with uncovering numbers One to Seven with different items from two rows of  face-down cards. There is always a solution!

This game offers a very pretty and demonstrative way to teach and train amounts and numbers and recognizing amounts at a glance; and with displaying five rows you have to think before discarding a card, so a bit of logical training, too!

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 15+

Designer: Reinhard Staupe

Art: Oliver Freudenreich

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2012

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: Educational game

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice training to discern amounts

Trains planning and logic

Pretty, clear illustrations

Packed in a tin

Compares to:

Ligretto for forming number sequences

Other editions:

Currently none

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