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Smart Builders

Tools to build a house

A house is built, but to achieve this you need to combine house parts and tools. There are three kinds of house parts – a front and back side showing a door, side walls and roof parts; you need two pieces of each type to set up a house.

All house parts are sorted by shape and stacked, the top part of the stack is turned over so that a tool is visible on a white background. The chips showing twelve different tools are laid out face-down in a circle around the house part stacks.

The active players turns over one of the tool chips – when the tool depicted on the chip is currently visible on a house part, you may take this house part and set it down; the tool chip is turned back over again, and a new house part is turned over on the respective stack. If you have already managed to collect the two parts of a kind that you need and are able to take a third part, you give this part as a gift to another player who still needs it. When the tool depicted on the revealed chip is visible on more than one house part, you may choose a part. When the tool depicted on the chip does not correspond to any of the tools depicted on the house parts, you cannot collect a part in this turn.

If you are first to have collected all six parts necessary for a house and have assembled the house correctly, you win.

Smart Builders with smart buildings – the little houses are cute to look at, very stable and sturdy and collecting the parts step by step with the help of the tool chips shows very nicely that building a house takes time and which work with which tools are involved, among others. In free play you can explain the tools and their use in greater detail.

Players: 2-4

Age: 3+

Time: 10+

Designer: Marco Teubner

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Beleduc 2016

Web: www.beleduc.de

Genre: Memo, assigning, combining parts

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: cn de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Good, sturdy components

Rules suitable for toddlers

Tools and their use clearly depicted

Comes with a template for a memo game

Compares to:

Educational games on tools

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 1