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Polly Pudel

matching dog rears to fronts

A lot of dogs are gamboling on the meadow in the park; all owners want to exercise their darlings at the same time, and as many dogs are confusingly similar to each other, chaos reigns, and owners need help to find their pets.

Photos of 25 dogs are stacked face-down, paw side up. 25 additional tiles show hind quarters of dogs on the front side, and on the back you find the same dog pictures that are on the photos in the face-down stack. The hind quarter tiles are laid out, hind quarters visible, in a 5x5 grid. The top dog photo is revealed; if you find the corresponding hind quarter for this dog, you put your bone on it. If several players want to put their bone on the same hind quarter tile, the fastest one can do so and the other players can decide if they want to place their bone on another hind quarter tile.

Then the hind quarter tiles under all bones are turned over to the full photo side and compared to the photo from the stack. If you found the correct dog, you take the photo from the stack. If the correct dog was not identified, the photo goes underneath the stack. In both cases, all tiles in the grid are turned back over to show the hind quarter side. To identify the correct dogs you can check color, ears and tail of the dogs. When all photos have been taken you win with most of them, either counted or laid out to form the longest row.

A cute and funny idea, easy to play and graphically very nice; the dogs and their hind quarters are prettily drawn. There are five dogs of each color, and ears, tail and color are different enough to distinguish between hind quarters easily.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 15+

Designer: Jean-Francois Rochas

Artist: Oliver Freudenreich

Price: ca. 7 Euro

Publisher: Haba 2019

Web: www.haba.de

Genre: Spot, react

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Cute, sweet drawings

Dog hind quarters

Compares to:

All spot-and-react games

Other editions:

Currently none

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