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Pie Face!

being hit by a sponge!

Action games are always big favorites with children and this one here is no exception – how could it be as it uses one of the oldest elements in slapstick comedies – having a pie or an equivalent thrown into your face.

The necessary “throw-in-your-face” machine is assembled – the frame for the face is inserted, the swatting hand and two handles are fixed to the bases and you then “load” the hand with a wet sponge or – at least according to the picture on the box – with some foam or whipped cream. Then you determine who will go first. This starting player as the first „victim“ turns the spinner and then puts his face into the swatting frame. The arrow on the spinner indicates the number of turns the player must give the handles on the unit.

If you manage to turn the handles for the indicated number of times without being hit by the sponge, scores the number or turns times 2 for points. If you were not swatted, you do not score. You can also choose to announce that you will turn the handles less often than indicated by the spinner; if you do so and are not swatted you only score the number of turns. In this way all players in turn have a go, are swatted or not, and of course you need to reload the hand when necessary. Whoever scores 25 points first, wins.

Nonsense pure and simple, slapstick at its finest, and harmless with a wet sponge; the rules explicitly warn against using foam – as in the picture on the box - or any other material than the sponge! Why then use it in the picture? But this is the only point open to criticism, children have fun and in the right surroundings the water in the sponge is okay, too.

Players: 2+

Age: 5+

Time: 10+

Designer: not named

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 18 Euro

Publisher: Hasbro 2015

Web: www.hasbro.at

Genre: Action

Users: For children

Special: 2 players

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Slapstick nonsense

Stable unit

Without batteries

Compares to:

Other action games with random mechanisms

Other editions:

Hasbro (en)

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 3