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Das Rotkäppchen-Duell

Search for the Picnic Baskets

Three picnic baskets for each of the two players are hidden in the Red Ridinghood forest, and need to be found for Grandma. The 30 trees are blank on one side and show various images on their backsides - 2x The Big Bad Wolf, 4x The Woodsman, 6x a Picnic Basket, 8x an Empty Tree and 10x a Signpost. Each player has a set of 15 trees and both alternate in placing the trees on the table, image facing the respective player; you try to place your trees in-between those of the other player and to memorize the location of your empty trees. When the forest is set up, each player sees the images of his own trees, the empty backsides of his own empty trees and the empty backsides of all opposing trees.

Then, the active player turns over one of the trees with an empty side facing him: If you find a signpost, nothing happens. If you ended up with the Big Bad Wolf, you must hand over a picnic basket that is visible to you out of the forest to your opponent, he now has one less to find. If you find a picnic basket behind a tree, you take it out of the forest and if you find the Woodsman, you can turn over another tree instantly. But remember! You can only take picnic basket out of the forest, if you find it behind a tree!

If you are first to collect three baskets, you receive a Grandma token and a new forest is set up for a new round. With two Grandma tokens, you win the game.

A pretty game of searching and memory, simple and yet challenging due to the double-sided empty trees, which you need to memorize at the start. The Fairy Tale topic has been nicely implemented and the Big Bad Wolf is rather harmless, he only eats a picnic basket.

Players: 2

Age: 5+

Time: 10+

Designer: Christoph Reiser, Arno Steinwender

Artist: Valentina Moscon

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Game Factory 2017

Web: www.gamefactory-spiele.com

Genre: Search, memo

Users: For children

Special: 2 players

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Pretty design

Simple mechanism

Fairy Tale nicely implemented

Compares to:

Stratego for the set-up method, otherwise searching games in general

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 1

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