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Fummelei

Your thumb is out of play!

It is not often that a title of the game - at least in German - fits a game mechanism as perfectly as Fummelei does. Because fumbling is the main mechanism of the game, you use your hand with a handicap! And that means fumbling. Why?

Well, you take your thumb out of play, and maybe also additional fingers, by using the Ohne-Daumen-Band. But before you start, you collect various items about the house, that you will need to complete the tasks, for instance, two shirts with the same number of buttons, two jackets with a zipper, paper cups, shoes with shoelaces, coins, etc. Then players agree on the number of fingers - without the thumb! - you may use. Then the active player draws a card, reads out the task and selects one of the other players for his opponent of the round. Now, both players don an Ohne-Daumen-Band to block their thumb and additional fingers as agreed.

Then both players complete the task, usually within a given time frame - tasks can be: Form a sculpture according to template both players can give arguments why their own creation is the better one, or draw something as stated on the card or use one of the items according to instructions. For sculptures and drawings, the non-involved players decide which creations wins. The winner always gets the task card, whoever has three cards first, wins the game.

One might think that one has seen about all that is possible in the genre of creative sculpting or drawing games, and behold, here is something new! Something really new! And nearly ingenious! Have to tried to let a coin rotate on its edge without using your thumb? Try it!

Players:3+

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: not named

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Hasbro 2017

Web: www.hasbrogaming.com

Genre: Dexterity

Users: For families

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de en it

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Variable handicap in relation to player age

Simplest tasks become very difficult

Additional items from your household are necessary

Compares to:

First game of this kind

Other editions:

Hasbro, Get a Grip (en), Ban-Dito (it)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 1

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3