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Fun Farm

Back to the barn!

To run away from the farm seems to be - at least in games - the favorite way of animals to pass the time, again and again one needs to go and catch them. In Fun Farm the runaways have arranged themselves in a circle and cards with their images are stacked face down. Two dice show colors and corresponding symbols are on the cards. Players are farmer in turn. As the first farmer you start the game by drawing a card that is placed within the circle. Then you roll two dice, also within the circle.

When one of the cards shows one of the dice results, the card is activated and the animal on it can be snatched. The player who succeeds in grabbing it gets the card and the animal is put back in the circle. When there is no corresponding result the card remains in place and the next farmer adds a new one. Now, two cards can be activated in each turn. When two cards showing the same animal are activated, the successful player gets both cards. You are allowed to use both hands to grab two animals at the same time, but if you drop an animal before you set it down in front of yourself, another player can grab it. When a card is activated and players fail to spot the activation, the animal can only be caught next round with a new roll activating it.

If you grab the wrong animal you put a card back in the middle, it can now again be activated. The game ends with the round in which the last card is drawn from the pile and you win with most cards.

It is really astonishing how regularly used standard topics and mechanism can result in a simple, cute game, as well as regards to cute animals as to the nice mechanisms that work well together.

Players: 2-10

Age: 6+

Time: 30+

Designer: Luca Bellini

Artist: Erika Signini, Paolo Vallerga

Price: ca. 16 Euro

Publisher: Heidelberger Spieleverlag 2013

Web: www.heidelbaer.de

Genre: Dice, reaction

Users: For children

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: cn de fr it ru

In-game text: no

Comments:

Cute animals that provide good grip

Easy rules

Nice combination of both standard topic and standard mechanisms

Compares to:

All games on quick reactions to revealed cards

Other editions:

Iello, Post Scriptum, Raven Distribution, Swan Panasia, Lifestyle

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 3