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Kleine Gespensterfreunde

Through the window in pairs

A party is scheduled for midnight in the old castle, but the spiteful castle cats Hiss and Scratch bar the passage for the little ghosts who have found a way to outsmart the cats – in pairs they can enter the castle through a window in the tower.

The ghost tiles show different ghosts and different background colors. All ghost tiles are laid out face-down and, depending on the number of players, you get six, seven or eight fireflies which you lay out face-down, too. In the first round of the game the ghost coat of arms shows colors, so you need to look for background colors. In your turn you pick two ghost tiles and turn them over; if both tiles show the same background color, you have found a pair, turn over one of your fireflies to the illuminated side and push the pair you found through a window in the tower. When you turn over ghosts with a different background color or if one of the cats appears you put the tiles back face-down. When only the cats are left and nobody has turned over all his fireflies to the illuminated side, you play another round. For this new round you flip the coat of arms to the ghost side and you need to look for two identical ghosts in this round. If you can turn over your last firefly to the illuminated side, you win instantly.

At first glance Kleine Gespensterfreunde is a simple memo game, but the additional details turn it into an enchanting little game – the topic is cute and ideal for children; that there really is a window to let the ghosts pass into the tower is an enchanting feature that enhances the fun in the game, as do the fireflies whose illumination is the real aim of the game.

Players: 2-4

Age: 3-8

Time: 15+

Designer: Jocelyne Ménager-Berthier

Artist: Martina Theisen

Price: ca. 9 Euro

Publisher: Haba 2013

Web: www.haba.de

Genre: Memo

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very nice implementation of the memo mechanism

Pretty story

Nice variation of the images

Compares to:

All kind of memo games

Other editions:

Currently none

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