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Maus van Klecks

Identical colors for the Peacock

Maus van Klecks is a world-famous artist and has invited friends to join her in a painting session. But her palettes are tiny and only have room for three colors, so you need to choose colors anew in each round.

A track of pencils and brushes is laid out in a circle, the spaces in-between are the squares for movement; one of them holds the cakes. Each player is given a screen, a palette and a marker for each color. The die shows six symbols for categories: Animal - item - something to eat - something from fairy tales, films or stories - something to wish for or dream of - something beginning with a letter named by your neighbor or something from preschool. If you are the active player you roll the die and chooses an object in the category determined by the die. Then you name the object and all players now select the colors they want to use and put them on the palette. Then screens are removed and you compare your palette to those of the other players. For each color spot on your palette that can also be found on other palettes, you advance your marker one spot. When you reach or pass the cakes you take one. If you are first to collect three cakes you win. In the cooperative version one player rolls and names the item, both choose colors and then move one spot for each correlation; the mouse moves one step for each deviation, she always goes first. Whoever collects two cakes first - players or mouse - wins.

In each variant this is a cute idea - ten colors for a chance for correlation, that is, while at least two players think of brown or white when a bear is mentioned; this is a game where you score with standard decisions.

Players: 2-5

Age: 5+

Time: 15+

Designer: Thilo Hutzler

Artist: Leo Timmers

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: Haba 2013

Web: www.haba.de

Genre: guessing for correlating choices

Users: For children

Special: 2 players

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Attractive design and components

Simple rules

Demonstrates the difference between standard choices and individual choices

Compares to:

All games with secret players' choices for correlations

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 2

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0