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Kippelkönig

balance treasure and lion!

Lion King Leo guards his silver treasure but nods off all the time - and those naps are used by players to nick silver nuggets from King Leo. However, when thieves wake King Leo up by upsetting the balance, guards throw tomatoes at them.

18 silver nuggets are laid out and completely covered with the game board. King Leo is placed upright on the cushion in the middle of the board. In turn, each player takes the stick and tries to maneuver one or more silver nuggets out from under the board completely. While doing so, you are not allowed to look beneath the board, King Leo must not topple and and the plan cannot tilt to touch the table. Then you use your hand to place the silver nuggets on cases on top of the board, one nugget to each case! Of course, again King Leo must not topple, and the board must not tilt! The round ends, when King Leo topples or the board tilts - this wakes King Leo up and the placer who caused this, the active player that is, receives one tomato chip from the guards. The round also ends, when all 16 cases on the board have been successfully filled with silver nuggets and the board is stable on the remaining two silver nuggets and King Leo is still upright on his cushion. For a new round, all 18 silver nuggets are covered with the board and King Leo is placed on the cushion. Whoever receives the second tomato chip, loses, all others win together.

Stealing treasures is standard behavior nowadays in games; in this case achieved with a steady hand and good visual perception and memory for the arrangement of silver nuggets under the board. A very nice balance variant!

Players: 2-4

Age: 4+

Time: 15+

Designer: Heinz Meister

Artist: Pascal Nöldner

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Haba 2018

Web: www.haba.de

Genre: Balance, dexterity

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Standard topic

Needs manual dexterity and good memory

Not cooperative despite joint winners

Compares to:

All positioning games with balancing

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 1

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3