Besprechung

Tief im Riff

Discover ocean animals

A clownfish and his three friends want to find out how many different ocean animals live in the coral reef, and by working together they can find out more than each one by himself. Round tiles, showing between one and four ocean animals, are distributed face-down on the board. The active player rolls the die and moves a fish pawn accordingly, along the paths in direction of the arrow fishes. Fish pawns can move any way, but never against the indications of the arrow fishes. Players confer on which case the active player moves which of the four fish pawns. The more fish pawns are together on a case after the move, the more ocean animals can be found. When the fish pawn that was moved is alone on a case, you reveal a tile with one ocean animal - the number of animals on the tile is indicated by bubbles on its back side. When several fish pawns are on a case, you turn up the same number of animals; they can be on several tiles, if the total number of animals equals the number of fish pawns on the case.

If there is no suitable tile, you may swap tiles; that is, you can, for instance turn up a 3-tile and turn down three 1-tiles, so that you can then turn up two 1-tiles for two fish on the case. A kraken case allows you to select a number of steps between 1 and 6, but only if you rolled a 6. If a fish arrives back at the starting case, he must wait there for the others. If all animals are found before all fish are back at the start, all players win together.

Pretty, colorful, simple and an ideal game to practice cooperation and planning, the swapping mechanism is help and challenge at the same time.

Players: 2-6

Age: 5+

Time: 20+

Designer: Alex Randolph

Artist: Doris Matthäus

Price: ca. 18 Euro

Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2017

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: Cooperative, roll & move

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Re-implementation of Der Rattenfänger von Hameln

Nice topic

Good practice for cooperation and planning

Very attractive graphics

Compares to:

Cooperative planning games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

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