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Fauna junior

Do pandas live in the mountains? Do deer eat plants? And is a python as heavy as a human? These questions are answered by Fauna junior with regards to one of 180 animals from all over the world, from koala to cormorant, at home in one of six different habitats: City/farm, forest/river/lake, desert/semi-desert, mountains/highlands/scree slopes, tropical forest/rain forest or open habitats like grass land, moors, heaths, savannah, fields or shrubs. The animals must be assigned to one of these habitat groups and players must decide how heavy the animal might be, whether it lays eggs or bears young, if it only eats plants or other things as well.

All players take a good look at the first animal in the box without taking the card out and try to assess it correctly by placing a chip onto a habitat and a weight class as well as on a choice of “vegetarian” or “lays eggs”. The first player to choose a category places his marker into the orange-fringed circle; all other chips for that category are stacked in the white-fringed circle. Then the solution is given and you score points for correct placements – markers in the orange-fringed circles score 2 points, all other correct ones 1 point each; the markers on the points track are moved accordingly. The first player to reach or top 30 points wins the game.

Fauna junior offers exceedingly interesting glimpses into the animal kingdom, the mechanism of the original Fauna game has been well modified to suit younger children and yet this game is also fabulous for families. Its good fun, too, that already starts with the sometimes surprising animal names.

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 6 and up

Dauer           : approx. 30 min

Autor           : Friedemann Friese

Grafik          : Peter Nishitani, Alexander Jung

Titel englisch          : ident

Preis            : ca. 28,00 Euro

Verlag          : Huch & friends

                     www.huchandfriends.de

Genre                    : Assessment game

Zielgruppe             : For children

Mechanismen         : ca. 30,00 Euro

Kommentar:

Very good adaption of the basic game

Features 180 animals

Very good as a family game, too

High information content

Vergleichbar:

Fauna and other assessment games on animal topics

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