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Hippo Hopp

Safe Landing on Hippo’s Back!

During the day birds may pick beetles and worms off the hippos, but at dusk the hippos want to be left alone. 9 hippo cards are face-down draw pile, 19 hippos are placed in a circle, number side up. All players briefly look at the cards, then they are turned over to show the hippo backs. The bird is placed on a card randomly.

In your turn you either turn over a card in the circle or use a penalty card of another player. If you turn up a card you move the bird as many steps as the number on the card indicates. If you want to use a penalty card you take, move the bird accordingly and the card is discarded. In both cases the important thing is the landing site of the bird. If the bird ends on a face-down hippo you receive points for each open-faced card you stepped over, if you moved with a penalty card you can only score up to three points, even if you cross more open cards. When the bird ends its move on an open card, you must take this card as a penalty card, pen cards in the circle showing the same or a lower number than the penalty card are turned over again. The gap is filled with a card from the draw pile. When the draw pile is empty and the first card is taken from the circle, the game ends, you hand in 2 points for each penalty cards and win with most points.

Hippo Hopp is a fun hopping along coupled with careful optimization of your move, provided you manage to remember card values and are willing to give 2 points to another player by using his penalty card, to you own advantage, obviously. Hippo Hopp is a fast, well-made game with a cute topic.

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 8+

Dauer           : ca. 30 min

Autor           : Peter Steinert

Grafik          : Björn Pertoft

Titel            : ident

Preis            : ca. 8 Euro

Verlag          : Amigo 2011

www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre                    : Card game

Zielgruppe             : For families

Version                           : de

Rules                              : de

In-game use of language   : no

Kommentar:

Pretty topic

Fast play

Simple rules

Good memory is helpful

Vergleichbar:

All games that use hidden values for advancing

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