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Auf Zack!

Sum all starfish!

On 44 square tiles you can find 11 different images - ice-cream cones, starfish, ducks, seahorses, fish, clouds, whales, shells, turtles, pebbles and ships - in different numbers. Those tiles are shuffled face-down and den spread out on the table. Ten wooden discs carrying numbers 1 to 10 are randomly placed, number-side up, among the tiles. Then all players seat themselves - and this is important - in a way that all have the same easy access to this display in the middle. If it is your turn you use one hand to turn up two tiles - your other hand stays on the table, and all other players also have put their hands on the table. When those two tiles show different images, you turn them back over again. But if the show the same images, the stay open-faced and all players, each one for himself, adds up the number of images on both tiles as fast as possible and then grabs the disc with the corresponding total., which can be maximum 10. There are also tiles featuring no image at all, they count for 0 and you can assign them to their group by their background color. If you are first to snatch the correct disc, you take the pair of cards and put the disc back among the tiles still on the table. When all tiles have been taken you win if you collected most tiles.

A simple game of arithmetic that impresses with very pretty components and extremely easy rules. The images are easy to distinguish and the background color is also clearly different. Besides quick mental arithmetic in the range from 1 to 10 you also train fast pattern and quantity recognition. If you have to painstakingly count one by one, you will be too slow.

Players: 2-5

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Kirsten Becker, Jens-Peter Schliemann

Artist: Johann Rüttinger

Price: ca. 18 Euro

Publisher: Drei Hasen in der Abendsonne 2014

Web: www.hasehasehase.de

Genre: Learning, arithmetic

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de es it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

First edition 2003, Drei Magier Spiele

Very pretty components

Trains mental arithmetic and quick recognition of quantities

Compares to:

Auf Zack, Drei Magier Spiele

Other editions:

Currently none

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Interaction (brown): 2

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