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Bärenspiel

LEAVE THE FOREST TOGETHER

Games that are good for the environment and good for children – with this goal Amigo starts a new range of games in their program; the series is calles Ökoo, the games are produced from material that can be 100% recycled, and promote the idea of cooperative play. For the first three games in the series Amigo has gone back to the range of Herder Games, who published cooperative games in the early Eighties.

Bärenspiel features a little bear that has gotten lost in the forest because it has been nibbling berries and running after butterflies too long. Players help him, overcome obstacles and lead it out of the forest. You roll three dice – for each paw you can roll the die again. For a bear you may turn over a tile; if it is a path tile you can turn up another tile until you encounter either an animal or an obstacle. If your roll contains another bear you have another such turn. Instead of turning up tiles you can use a path tile from the edge of the display to cover an obstacle. If you encounter a forest animal the path ends, you must not disturb it and must build the path around it. When the little bear has been found, you lead it out of the forest by rolling the dice. For a bear the little bear moves 5 steps; for a paw 3 steps, and for the tree the bear moves 1 step. If the little bear has left the forest after four rolls, all players have won together.

Bärenspiel offers a very beautiful and felicitous mixture of mechanism, the topic is easily grasped and of interest to children and there is a nice learning effect in the joints decision about which tile should be turned up next.

Players: 2-5

Age: 4+

Time: 20+

Designer: Hajo Bücken

Artist: Johannes Rüttinger

Price: ca. 18 Euro

Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2011

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: Kooperatives Würfelspiel

Users: For children

Special: 1 player

Special: 1 or 2 players

Special: 2 players

Special: Many players

Special: 1 or many players

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Revised new edition

First edition 1983 at Herder

Very attractive cooperative game

Beautiful, realistic drawings

Includes memo version and twin version

Compares to:

Other cooperative dice game

Other editions:

Currently none, Bärenspiel 1983 at Herder and 1991 at Jumbo

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0