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Terra Kids

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As an animal detective you answer questions like "which animal is slower?" or "which animal is heavier?". Three checkpoints for speed, size and weight are set up. The active player is the "riddle animal" in question and draws the top card from the pile. The other players are animal detectives. The active detective takes a hint card, places it next to one of the checkpoints and asks the corresponding question, for instance "are you faster or slower?". The riddle animal player now changes the marking on the corresponding checkpoint, to the left if his animal is slower, to the right if it faster and underneath the hint card if the speed is approximately the same. The icon on the animal card tells you how it moves the size used for comparison, for instance height or length of head-body. The active detective then gives a guess for the riddle animal - when the guess was wrong he covers the animal he named on the board and the turn passes to the next detective.

When the guess was correct, the riddle animal player keeps his card and the successful detective takes a card from the pile. The round ends when a detective has guessed the riddle animal or when all twelve hint card have been used and the animal has not been guessed. In this case the card of the riddle animal is taken out of the game. When in a game of three players each one was riddle animal twice or once in a game of four or five players, you win with most cards.

This is a nice variant of "compare data" that works well, albeit there being no hint card for the water animals, but the rules provide a list of all data for all animals which you can check if necessary.

Players: 3-5

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Inka & Markus Brand

Artist: Gabriela Silveira

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: Haba 2013

Web: www.haba.de

Genre: Assessment, value comparison

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very attractive selection of animals

Nice components, especially the checkpoints

Good animal graphics

Compares to:

Fauna and other assessment/comparison games on animal data

Other editions:

Currently none

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