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Paul Panda

PLant and Harvest Bamboo, Feed Paul

Paul Panda is hungry and wants to be fed his favorite bamboo leaves; players plant and harvest bamboo and feed Paul and try at the same time to win against Paul. The spinner determines the actions – if you are the first to plant all your bamboo poles you win the game. First you place the box cover so that it shows Paul sitting on the table, he should be easily reached by all players and seems to watch the game. 3 or 4 of the bamboo poles are placed into the inlay of the box, they represent the bamboo glade, the remaining poles are distributed evenly among all players. Then you play in turn in clockwise direction and turn the spinner: If the spinner points to Paul, you feed him with one leaf that you push through the mouth opening in the box cover, and take one bamboo pole out of the bamboo glade. If the spinner points to the lumberjack, you harvest 2 bamboo poles from the glade. If the spinner points to the sun, you can plant one bamboo pole into the glade, if it points to the cloud, you plant two poles. When hungry Paul has guzzled all the leaves before any one player could plant all his poles the winner is Paul together with the player who has fewest poles left.

Paul Panda is an enchanting game for small children, first due to the felicitous integration of the box into the game – you push out the little card board piece from the box and suddenly Paul has a mouth for feeding! And the poles put into the inlay very nicely simulate a bamboo glade. And I was very impressed by the simplicity of mechanisms used to provide age-related basic information on the circle of planting-harvesting-feeding.

Players         : 2-4

Age             : 4+

Duration       : 15+

Designer      : Beate Nikolai

Artist           : Rebecca Meyer, Almut Wagner

Price            : ca. 25 Euro

Publisher      : Beleduc 2011

Web             : www.beleduc.de

Genre          : Dice game

Users           : For children

Version        : multi

Rules           : ch de en es fr it nl

In-game text : no

Comments    : Very attractive components * Box cover integrated into the game to represent Paul Panda * simple rules * plant-harvest-feed cycle clearly represented

Compares to : First game of its kind, basically all dice games

Other editions: currectly none

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