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Doggie Bones

Dig for bones in the garden

All dogs have hidden bones in the garden soil, but cannot remember where the hid them and so need the help of all players to find them again. Each player is given four bones in his color, a cute dog marker and a storage card of his color. At the start of the game the bones are hidden: The mat representing the garden meadow is spread out and the dog bowls are placed on the squares, small opening upwards. Then each player hands his bones to his right neighbor. In turn players now hide the bones they hold, asking the other players to close their eyes and putting bones into different bowls. He slides them in and may hold the bowl with his other hand to steady it but cannot lift it up. Then all players put their dog markers randomly on any square of the board, dogs are placed randomly on the board, there can be more than one dog on a square, and now the search begins: You move your dog over any distance next to a bowl and show the bones under the bowl to all players; if you found bones of your own, you put them on the storage card. If a bowl is empty it is removed. If you are first to collect all four bones, you win. In a variant for players, ages 4+, a dog can only move a maximum of two squares and cannot move diagonally, bones under a bowl belonging to other players are hidden again. A bowl is only removed if it is empty when lifted.

Dogs and bones are one of the standard topics for children games, and in Doggie Bones topic and mechanism go well together. Besides memory the game also trains motor skills; for three-year olds it is not too easy to slide the bones into the small opening - all in all a nice game for the target group.

Players: 2-4

Age: 3+

Time: 10+

Designer: James Harmon

Artist: Stephanie Erber

Price: ca. 26 Euro

Publisher: Beleduc 2012

Web: www.beleduc.de

Genre: memory

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: cn de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Pretty dog figurines

Variant listed

Nice standard mechanism

Good training for motor skills

Compares to:

All memo games

Other editions:

Currently none

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