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Trampeltiere

crawfish on My back

Animals walk in very different ways – players are asked to imitate the walk of animals, another player must guess the animal.

A board is assembled, 24 guessing cards are shuffled and 24 path cards are sorted by their background pattern and placed at the corresponding side of the board, there are six cards in two rows at each side.

The active player is the current Clomping Creature, draws the first guessing card and secretly looks at it, the card shows one of the animals depicted on the path cards. You take the snake and place it at the side of the board where the animal is depicted on a card. So players know the six possible animals, one of them needs to be guessed. Now you imitate the walk of the animal by moving your arms, hands and fingers on the back of your left neighbor. You can try to indicate the weight of the animal, the way the animal moves and the speed of movement or characteristics like clicking or pinching claws of a crayfish or the picking peak of a hen. Your left neighbor must guess the animal. If he manages to guess correctly, he receives the path card, the successful imitator takes the guessing card. When your left neighbor cannot guess the animal, you try your luck with the next player. If nobody can guess the animal, both guessing card and path card are discarded. When only one card is left at a side of the board, you relocate the card to the side with new fewest cards. After the last guessing card you win with most cards.

Again in ingenious game idea by Emely Brand, a designer still in school and already successful! – the idea is marvelous, marvelously simple and not that easy to implement.

Players: 3-5

Age: 6+

Time: 15+

Designer: Emely Brand

Artist: Thies Schwarz

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Haba 2015

Web: www.haba.de

Genre: Tactile, creative, guessing

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Designer still a school kid

Marvelous idea

Simple rules

Includes a cooperative version

Compares to:

Other tactile games

Other editions:

Animal Mystére, Haba France

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 2

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 2

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3