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Schräge Vögel
Hurry back to your nest!
Karl the Cat is on the prowl and players need to snip the birds to safety into the crown of the tree. The crown is laid out. 24 sturdy, square cards show a bird in flight on one sight and on the other side either a bird’s nest or a bird feet up or Karl the Cat. The cards are shuffled bird-side up and dealt evenly to all players. In your turn you place the top card of your stack at the edge of the table with part of the card sticking out, aim at the crown and snip the card with your flat hand from below towards the crown.
If you do not manage to hit the tree crown you put the card back under your stack. If your card ends up in the tree crown or on a card already correctly in place, bird-in-flight side up, the card stays in place. When the card lands nest side showing, young birds are born and you can place another card from your stack bird-in-flight side up on the crown. When a bird in the landed in three crown showing its feet it needs to practice and you take back this card and one more beneath your stack. If you were unlucky enough to snip Karl the Cat into the crown you take the cat card back and also all bird cards of the same color and put them underneath your stack. If you dislodge cards from the crown with your card, you must take those back, too. If you are first to be out of cards you win the game.
Schräge Vögel is a very simple dexterity game with a very simple mechanism, the surprise element is in the back sides of the cards - you can snip successfully and yet end up with some penalty cards. Still, it is a fun game, quickly played and also fun to play for the whole family.
Players: 2-4
Age: 5+
Time: 10+
Designer: Brigitte Pokornik
Art: Felix Scheinberger
Price: ca. 8 Euro
Publisher: Huch! and friends 2012
Genre: Dexterity game
Users: For children
Version: multi
Rules: de en fr nl
In-game text: no
Comments:
Nice idea
Some chance due to different card backs
Dexterity element is dominant
Good family game
Compares to:
All snipping games
Other editions:
Currently none
Chance (pink): 1
Tactic (turquoise): 0
Strategy (blue): 0
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 0
Memory (orange): 0
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 0
Dexterity (green): 3
Action (dark green): 3