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Move trees to find ingredients

Magician’s apprentices search among the trees in the forest for ingredients needed for their potions. They need to accomplish three potions with seven ingredients each. The wood is set up on the turntable and filled with ingredient cubes. Each player is given a rake, three random recipe cards and five magic tiles showing numbers 2, 2, 3, 3 and 4.  The active player is the master magician and chooses one of his number tiles, names the number and moves the magic forest by as many positions to have easy access to as many ingredients needed for the leftmost of his incomplete potions. Then all play simultaneously and push ingredients into their basket with their rakes until the master has collected exactly the mentioned number of ingredients and calls a halt. All other players can collect any number of ingredients. Then you take the cubes from the baskets and place correct ingredients on the leftmost recipe card. If you have ingredients left over you can start on a new card. Incorrect ingredients go back into the forest and you must put back the same number of correct ingredient as well. If you did not collect enough ingredients you out back a correct ingredient for each missing one. If you completed all three potions you win. Should each player have used all his number tiles, you win with most finished potions. If there is a tie you win if you have the most ingredients on the incomplete recipe card.

This magic forest is enticing due to the pretty topic as well as the fantastic components and the mechanism, which goes well with the story; there is a surprising amount of tactic in how you use the number tiles.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 20+

Designer: Carlo A. Rossi

Artist: Michael Menzel

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Huch! & friends 2013

Web: www.huchandfriends.de

Genre: dexterity, collecting

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Marvelous components

Very nice combination of mechanisms

Tactic in using the number tiles

Compares to:

All collecting games using dexterity

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3