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Alle meine Entchen

The colorful race

All the ducklings are paddling around on the lake, hiding their heads under water – but no, all ducks in this game are invisible under the water, that is, all the ducklings depicted on the card board tiles. Four plastic ducks swim around in circles, at the start of the game you line them up with yellow Mama Duck in front. The blue, red and green duckling are lined up behind her in random sequence. All 20 round tiles showing five ducklings in each of the four colors are shuffled face down and spread out in a loose circle-

In your turn you try to find a tile in color of the duckling that is currently in last position in the line. If you turn over a fitting tile you take the tile, place the duckling at the front of the line and can do another turn. When the tile you turned over does not show the color of the duckling in last place you put the tile back to the same spot you took it from, and all players should memorize the color of the duckling depicted on the tile. Now the turn passes to the next player. When all tiles have been taken you win if you have collected most tiles. As a variant you could take four markers in the colors of the ducks and each player can choose a marker to bet which duck will be in front at the end of the game and thus will have won the race.

Designer Heinz Meister is a master of simple children games providing lots of fun that is also pretty to look at and nice to touch. As a side effect you train quick mental switching of priorities because after each turn another color is in demand. Where is blue duckling? Here? Yes! And the blue duckling jumps in front! And now a yellow one is needed!

Players: 2-4

Age: 3+

Time: 10+

Designer: Heinz Meister

Artist: Team Amigo

Price: ca. 16 Euro

Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2013

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: memo, race

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Pretty, sturdy components

Ducks easy to handle for toddlers

Nice memo variant

Compares to:

Entenmarsch and other memo games with a racing topic

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0