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Speed Cups 6

Cup arranging for six!

The Speed Stacking hype has passed, but the game mechanics are still a good template for reaction and dexterity games. Speed Cups had taken up the topic for the feature of components and arranging and is now coming back as a special edition, Speed Cups 6 for up to six players and featuring 12 new task cards.

There are 30 cups in five colors, 36 task cards and a bell. Each player has five cups - one each in blue, red, green, black and yellow. On the tasks cards, those cups are represented by various images or integrated in various objects; so, for instance, five cups make up the column of a building crane or a task card shows five flower chests or five jackets or five cups or five meerkats, of course always in five colors.

The top card is revealed, and, depending on the image, you must either set out the cups in the right order in a row or stack them on top of each other - stack them for the traffic light, set them in a row for cards. As soon as you are done you hit the bell - if you are first to do so, you arrangement is checked. If all is correct, you take the card. If you made a mistake, the second-fastest will get the card, if his arrangement of cups is correct. When the card has been taken, the next one is revealed, and new arrangements are made, and so on. When all 36 cards have been played, you win with most cards.

Speed Cups 6  offers again a nice interpretation of Speed Stacking. The templates for the horizontal or vertical arrangements of cups are clearly and easily recognized and provide a quick, well-working game with lots of fun and lots of practice for pattern recognition and quick reactions.

Players: 2-6

Age:6+

Time:15+

Designer: Haim Shafir

Artist: Yaniv Shimoni, Barbara Spelger

Price: ca. 20 Euros

Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2018

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: Pattern recognition, speed

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Special edition of Speed Cups

Simple mechanism

Very clever tasks

Good, functional components

Trains reaction speed, hand-eye coordination and spatial thinking

Compares to:

Speed Cups, Speed Stacking

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3