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Spiegel-Spukschloss

Yellow candle – real ghost!

Three children dress up as ghosts and are cheerfully haunting the castle, but suddenly there are four of them, the real ghost of the castle has joined them and now needs to be identified. At the start of the game the ghosts are randomly given a candle, shuffled and placed in front of the staircases and you choose one of the symbols discs. You roll the die, move a ghost in any direction for the number of steps you rolled and can turn up a chip that is still face down on the spot reached. If this newly turned up chip or an open chip that is already there show your symbol you can take the chip. When the spot you reach is occupied you move the ghost there to any location of your choice. When you roll the ghost symbol you can either make a joker move of your choice to obtain a symbol chip or make the mirror test. For the mirror test you place a ghost of your choice in the middle of the board and turn the ghost until it faces a mirror. Now you either memorize the color of the candle that you see in the mirror or you have found the real ghost because the mirrors disappear; a real ghost does not have a mirror image! If you have collected all your own chips and are sure that you have found out the color of the candle the real ghost is carrying you may reveal the ghost by a final mirror test – if the mirrors fall you name the ghost’s candle color and win the game, if you have named the correct color.

Spiegel-Spukschloss is an enchanting memory game with sophisticated yet simple mechanics that demands a lot from your observation powers and memory; you must watch the ghost movements closely in order to test different ones.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 30+

Designer: Thomas Daum, Violetta Leitner

Artist: Rolf Vogt

Price: ca. 37 Euro

Publisher: Drei Magier / Schmidtspiele 2012

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: Memo game

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Attractive component

Well-working mechanics

Simple basic mechanisms

Demands close observation of ghost movements

Compares to:

Kraterschreck im Mondversteck and other games with a turntable mechanism and memory effects

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0