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Billy O’Shoe

WOODEN FEET AND A COLOR DIE

Little millipede Billy has very wet feet after being out in a squall of rain and is in no mood to take them off; so players must assist him to get rid of his shoes. You roll the color die and place your marker on the next spot of this color in the direction given by the arrow. If there is no foot at this spot you can add one of your feet next to it. Should there be your opponent’s marker on the spot you move on to the next free spot of the color rolled. The track is a circular track along Billy’s body, head and tail are turning points. If you are first to place all your feet you win.

In a version you play adhering to the same basic rules as in the core game, but the white spots on Billy’s body are now „bad luck“ spots: If you roll white you move to the next free white spot, but you are not allowed to place a foot there, even when the spot is free. And to make matters worse, your opponent can place a foot now next to any empty spot. Again the winner is who could place all his feet on Billy first.

In another version each player chooses one half of Billy, either the red or the blue on, marked by the arrows. Again you play as in the core version of the game, each player places feet on both sides of Billy’s body, and white spots are not “bad luck” spots; the winner in this version is the player whose side of Billy is first completely filled with feet!

Even when Billy Millipede has only 24 feet, he provides an enchanting idea in enchanting implementation; the wooden feet with a handle are funny and the simple rules even allow for first tactical considerations on where to best place a foot in the white = bad luck version.

Players: 2

Age: 3#

Time: 10+

Designer: Norbert Proena

Artist: Cristiana Giuriato

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Beleduc 2013

Web: www.beleduc.de

Genre: Color dice game

Users: For children

Special: 2 players

Version: multi

Rules: cn de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Pretty design

Nice background story

Good game for first rules adherence

Compares to:

All color dice games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0