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Hexenküche
Toadstools for the WITCHES‘ SOUP
From deep within the forest you hear whispering and voices; when you get nearer you can distinguish the voices of the witches and learn that they are only lacking toadstools for their magical soup. Seven toadstools are necessary to complete the recipe. So players in lieu of the witches go searching for the coveted toadstools.
You place the turntable on top of the board and then you place the wooden toadstools into the holes on this turntable. Each player chooses one witch.
Then you roll the die in turn and the active player pulls a toadstool out of the hole. When the color on the die corresponds to the color in the hole underneath the toadstool, you may keep the toadstool and place it on your cauldron next to your witch on the board. Should the color in the toadstool hole and on the die not correspond, you put the toadstool back into its hole. Of course players try to remember the color beneath the toadstool and to use this knowledge when they roll this color later in the game. If you are first to fill your cauldron with seven toadstools, you win!
For older witch-cooks you can create a more difficult game by moving the turntable by 180 degrees / half a turn; this moves the color dots and makes memorizing and finding them again more difficult.
Hexenküche offers a wonderful game with extremely simple means; it trains a lot of abilities – color recognition, memory, concentrating and also concentrating on a goal to achieve. The toadstools are exceedingly pretty, together with the green turntable they create the impression of a forest clearing. All in all a must have for each shelf of children games.
Players: 2-4
Age: 4+
Time: 20+
Designer: Team beleduc
Price: ca. 29 Euro
Publisher: Beleduc 2013
Web: www.beleduc.de
Genre: memo and collecting game
Users: For children
Version: multi
Rules: cn de en es fr it nl
In-game text: no
Comments:
New edition, first edition 1995
Very simple rules
Very beautiful components
Trains color recognition and memory
Compares to:
Hexenküche, first edition
Other editions:
Currently none
Chance (pink): 1
Tactic (turquoise): 0
Strategy (blue): 0
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 0
Memory (orange): 3
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 0
Dexterity (green): 0
Action (dark green): 0