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Die verzauberten Rumpelriesen

WutzelS hiding under leaves

The tiny Wutzels/Imps only dare to leave their hideaways when the Rumpelriesen/Rumpus Giants are asleep – but the Little Magicians know a Sleeping Spell, make the giants fall asleep and help the Wutzels out of hiding.

The board is set up, the Wutzels in the guise of tiles are randomly distributed in the dents in the board and the leaves are spread over them as a randomly mixed carpet. Finally, the giant pieces are placed upright onto the leaves carpet.

Each player is given a magic wand and the timer is turned over. Now, in the cooperative version, all search together for the Wutzel depicted on the first search card, shifting leaves with their wand. When he is found while the timer runs and the giants remain upright, you set aside the card and start the search for the next Wutzel. When a giant topples or the timer runs out the giants wake up and the Wutzel search card is discarded, he was not found. All remaining Wutzels are covered with leaves again and the giants set up, you turn over the timer and the search continues. In the cooperative version all win when the find more than eight Wutzels, exactly eight Wutzels found result in a tie and if you find fewer Wutzels, the giants have won. If you play the competitive version each player in turn searches by himself and you keep the search card for a Wutzel that you find. When all search cards have been used you win with most of them.

A magical game and as magical as any that comes from Drei Magier, and also a sophisticated combination of dexterity and memory; another nice feature is the continuation of the Little Magician Saga with yet another game.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 20+

Designer: Carlo Emanuele Lanzavecchia, Walter Obert

Artist: Rolf Vogt

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Drei Magier Spiele 2013

Web: www.dreimagier.de

Genre: Memory, dexterity

Users: For children

Special: 1 player

Special: 2 players

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Exceedingly pretty components

Unusual mechanism

Very nice background story

Cooperative and competitive version

Continues the Little Magician’s Saga

Compares to:

All cooperative dexterity games with memory mechanism

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 1

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 2