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Spuzzle

Game plus Puzzle

Spuzzle is short for „SPIEL UND PUZZLE, meaning a game and a puzzle combined! The game features four sets of 20 puzzle parts each, in colors of blue, yellow, purple and red. Those sets are accompanied by 28 Spuzzle cards.

At the start you sort your 20 parts by animals and spread them out. The first player turns up a card and displays it: He can now place a puzzle part that corresponds to the animal pictured on the turned-up card into his part of the board - he can choose which one to place. When the card shows the grinning monkey in green trousers you may remove a part from the puzzle of another player and hand it back to him. But you can only take away a part from an animal that is not finished; complete puzzles are safe from the monkey action. When the card simply says “Spuzzle”, all players call out “Spuzzle” and each player places one puzzle part of his choice on the appropriate spot in his part of the board. IF you are first to complete all your puzzles you win.

The idea for this comes from Canada, Luc St. Pierre showed it 2011 in Essen and he also had a multi-language edition to offer. The Amigo Edition 2012 features the same happy, colorful, cheeky animals. The game itself is completely chance-driven, because even if you believe that you must take away a part from a certain player to hinder him to finish quickly, all in all the chance of the cards reigns. And the next Spuzzle cards fills the gap again and he himself then in his draws the missing tail end of the kangaroo or the next player turns up a Spuzzle card and all the tactic was in vain. An ideal game to learn how to play a game!

Players: 1-4

Age: 4+

Time: 10+

Designer: GameBrotherz

Art: not named

Price: ca. 14 Euro

Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2012

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: Placement games

Users: For children

Special: 1 player

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very good introduction into how to play a game

Ultra-simple rules

100% chance-driven

Pretty illustrations

Compares to:

Zozzle and other puzzles featuring rules

Other editions:

GameBrotherz, Canada; 999 Games, Netherlands, Scandinavian Trend Company

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0