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SOS WHITEWATER

JOstling for the best places in the boat

(SOS Wildwasser)

The animals go on a rafting trip and all want a seat in the boat to be on the first trip, so you must get them onto the boat fast without dislodging animals already in there. Three animal discs are placed next to the boat. In your turn you choose one of those animals and place or slide it onto the boat. Animals on the boat and the boat itself may not be steadied or held and animals must not be stacked. Animals of the same kind must touch each other. You may pass a turn. If you succeed in placing the animal of your choice, you receive a corresponding animal chip. If one or more animals drop off the boat you must take all of them. At the end of your turn you place a new animal next to the boat. When all have passed or there is no animal left next to the boat, the round ends and the player who had to take the most animals must discard one animal chip.   All other animal chips in front of the players are turned over, you may not look at them again. Then you play two more identical rounds. After three rounds each player turns up his animal chips and sorts them into pairs. Single chips are not scored, the player who owns the most pairs wins the game.

Anice and only seemingly simple game with a lot of demands on memory and tactical thinking for the target age group – do I take an animal already there and so reduce the possibility for others to get this animal or do I go for an animal that I already have to get a second chip? How do I place the animal? Do I let one drop and thus get rid of a single chip? Loads of interesting possibilities  result in a fantastic family game, too!

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 5 and up

Dauer           : ca. 20 min

Autor           : Christoph Behre

Grafik          : Oliver Freudenreich

Titel             : SOS Wildwasser

Preis            : ca. 15,00 Euro

Verlag          : Haba 2010

                     www.haba.de

Genre                    : Dexterity and balance game

Zielgruppe             : For children

Mechanismen         : Place animals without dropping them off the boat

Kommentar:

Nice topic

Planning and memory necessary

Some tactics are possible

Also a good family game

Vergleichbar:

Kipp Kipp Ahoi, Kapitän Wackelpudding and other balance games

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