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Alle meine Tiere

Size, weight, endangered?

Animals are an ever-fascinating and always interesting topic for children and also an ideal topic for training certain abilities, as there is, for instance, assessment of relations based on appearance and other information.

The game comprises 42 animal cards showing information on size and weight, whether the animal represents an endangered species or not or if it is living in groups or alone. Two arrow cards for each category are shuffled and stacked. Nine animal cards are placed in a 3x3 grid; in your turn you draw an arrow card and place it correctly next to a row or column or diagonal. In direction of the arrow the characteristic indicated by the arrow must show ascending values; for instance, for the category „weight“ the three animals in row or column must get heavier in direction of the arrow. When the arrow is placed, the cards are revealed and checked - if you are correct you take one of the three cards; if not, the arrow is handed to next player who tries for a solution. New cards are placed according to whether a solution was found or not. Whoever collects five cards first, wins.

This is a very simple game with a a lot of information, which needs adult supervision when played by children of the indicated minimum age; terms like social animal or endangered species must be explained and information on that given and maybe the names need to be read. Size and weight can be assessed by comparison of appearance.

All in all the game offers lots of information in very condensed form, also of interest to other than Primary School children; the images are especially impressive and allow a realistic comparison of size.

Players: 2-6

Age: 6+

Time: 15+

Designer: Reinhard Staupe

Artist: Oliver Freudenreich, Sandra Freudenreich

Price: ca. 7 Euro

Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2013

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: Assessment, comparison

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Impressive animal images

Lots of information

Adult supervision recommended

Compares to:

Fauna junior

Other editions:

Currently none

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