OUR REVIEW

Linus Der kleine Magier

Magical magnetic toys

A magical and magnetic game and a new addition to the series of games featuring Little Magicians: Linus the Little Magician has accidentally bewitched some of his toys, and they got mixed up with the ones that have not been affected by Linus’ spell, so players help him to sort out his toys. 30 round toy tiles – three magnetic ones and two non-magnetic ones for each kind of toy, Bat, Ball, Frog, Cat, Dice and Potion - are spread out open-faced on the table and you stack the square spotting tiles, there are three of them for each kind of toy.

In your turn you take the Linus figurine and place it on one of the round toy tiles that are still on display for the toy that is pictured on the top square search tile on the stack. Then you lift the Linus figurine again: When the tile sticks to Linus you have found one of the bewitched toys and take both the toy tile and the search tile and put it down on the table. If the tile does not stick, the turn passes to the next player, and you should remember this tile so that you do can disregard it in the next search for this kind of toy. When all search cards have been used, you win with most pairs of toy tiles and search cards.

Simply enchanting, enchantingly simple – exactly the right thing for a toddler, providing an early and easy experience of a rules game and of playful training of motor skills, concentration and memory. The drawings are really nice, my favorites are the bat and the pull-toy cat, and Little Magician Linus himself is absolutely sweet. The magnetic effects are most interesting for toddlers and the 3:2 ratio is gut, but a challenge for their memory.

Players: 2-5

Age: 3+

Time: 10+

Designer: Wolfgang Dirscherl

Artist: Rolf Vogt

Price: ca. 17 Euro

Publisher: Drei Magier Spiele 2013

Web: www.dreimagier.de

Genre: Memo and searching

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

New game in the series of Little Magicians

Very cute, nice drawings

Good mechanism for toddlers

Trains motor skills, concentration and memory

Compares to:

All searching games using magnetic effects

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