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Joy in horses on a game board

Horses and girls, this is a seemingly eternal and ever-lasting partnership, and Joylings offers two game variants on this topic: Cross Country for players ages 7+ and Birthday Party for players ages 5+.

In Cross Country you ride through a pretty landscape and find out what the respective horses like to do, for instance galloping or jumping. If you are first to collect one award chip from each of all six different categories and reach the finish line with your horse, you win. Each player is dealt seven horse cards, the rest is draw pile. You roll the die and move your horse forward, you can only enter the path when you manage to land on the purple horseshoe; if you land on a green horseshoe you can go directly to the path. In the course of the game you reach action spots where you can take shortcuts or can win, give away or swap award chips or where you might have to move your horse back.

For Birthday Party you use the back side of the board and only the ages of horses come into play from the horse cards; these cards are dealt evenly to all players. Many horses have been invited to Lucky’s birthday party; if you are first to collect six tournament sashes for the birthday horse and reach the finish line, you win. You roll the die and move your horse; on the event spots you either receive tournament sashes or must move backwards or can take a shortcut. On the spot featuring the birthday cake you compare ages of horses.

Standard mechanisms for a standard topic and yet a nice, pretty game for children, solidly made; horse images and information on all horses are a nice details for horse fanatics.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5/7+

Time: 20+

Designer: Aima Rendttorft Jasper

Artist: Aima Rendttorft Jasper, Uffe Danielsen, Tore Poulsen

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Huch! & friends 2013

Web: www.huchandfriends.de

Genre: Roll & move

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Standard topic nicely and age-related adapted with standard mechanisms

Pretty components

Horse pictures are a nice detail

Compares to:

All roll & move games with event spots and values comparison

Other editions:

Currently none

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