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Peter Picklock

… a risky gussing game

Players are on a foray with Peter Picklock and try to bring home the most and best booty. But to do so you must open the secure vaults and safeguard your booty in time before it is lost to the police. Booty cards of different values are placed under the vault cards. In your turn you roll the die to determine the color of the vault that you want to open. If you roll a money bag you can choose the vault. Then you give a guess if a card that you will turn up from the draw pile will show a higher or a lower number than the top card under your target vault. Cards are numbered from 1 to 52.

For a correct guess you receive all booty cards underneath your target vault, the card you turned up is placed under the vault. If you guessed wrong, you also place the turned-up card under the vault, on top of other cards there. And you are doubly unlucky if in case of a wrong guess you have unsecured booty cards, because these are lost and must be placed underneath the draw pile. To safeguard your booty you must choose to do so in your turn, if you do so you cannot roll and guess and place your booty cards underneath your money bag. Now they are safe. When all booty cards have been given out the player with most cards wins, in case of the tie the player with the highest card number.

Siggi Safeknacker offers a nice version of a standard topic, with simple rules and few components. For children the game on higher or lower numbers is challenging ond is a good training for estimating probabilities. The dilemma between breaking open a safe or safeguarding booty makes for a good family game, too.

Spieler         : 2-5

Alter            : ages 7+

Dauer           : ca. 20 min

Autor           : Heinz Meister

Grafik          : Thies Schwarz

Titel            : Siggi Safeknacker

Preis            : ca. 6 Euro

Verlag          : Haba 2011

                     www.haba.de

Genre                    : Guessing game with cards

Zielgruppe             : For children

Version                           : de

Rules                              : de en es fr it nl

In-game use of language   : no

Kommentar:

Simple rules

Good training for estimating probabilities

Also good as a famiyl game

Vergleichbar:

Gold Connection, Codeknacker a other games on the topic of breaking into safes and achieving a correct number

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