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Monstertorte

Collect sugar marbles to trim your cake

Trim, trim, trim your cake - this is the motto of this quick reaction game straight from the monsters’ kitchen where all is going topsy-turvy and the sugar marbles used for decorating cup cakes have just fallen into the mixing bowl. All sugar marbles, represented by five wooden marbles each in six colors are marbles are poured into the mixing bowl provided by the box bottom. Each child is given a spoon with a hole and a wooden bowl representing a cup cake tin; finally, the top cake card from the stack is turned up.

Now all players try at the same time and as quickly as they can to fish the colored marbles out of the bowl that are necessary to decorate the cake as pictured on the current cake card; the holes in the spoons are a nice assisting feature for getting the marbles out. You are allowed to use one hand only, the other hand you must put behind your back, and if you take a wrong color out of the mixing bowl you must put all marbles in your tin back into the mixing bowl. The fastest player to collect all necessary marbles for the top card gets the card; if you are first to collect five cards you win the game and have won the title of best Monster Baker!

Monstertorte is beautiful just like every other Haba game, featuring sturdy components for easy handling by children as well as a nice background story. The game trains hand-eye coordination, recognition of colors and speed of reaction, too, and also needs balancing ability to get the marble into your bowl and on top of all that it is fun to play, a lot of fun to play - the only thing missing is the dough to lick!

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 15+

Designer: Stefanie Rohner, Christian Wolf

Art: Felix Scheinberger

Price: ca. 17 Euro

Publisher: Haba 2012

Web: www.haba.de

Genre: Reaction and dexterity

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition of Tolle Torte

Stable and handy components

High allure to play again

Trains reaction, balance and colors

Compares to:

Tolle Torte and other collection games featuring dexterity and reaction

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3