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What kind of spots does a cow have?

Animals that are already known to small children show patterns – each player holds a set of animal cards with such patterned animals; these cards feature cow, hare, dog, cheetah, hyena and a ladybug. These animal cards are accompanied by pattern cards which are shuffled and laid out as a face-down stack.

The active player takes the stack of pattern cards and turns over the top card – the first player who manages to place the corresponding animal card from his hand on top of the pattern card, receives the pattern card and sets it down; the animal card is taken back in hand. There is a simple control mechanism if the correct animal has been found: the butterfly on the animal card must fly in the same direction as the butterfly on the pattern card. When a player has chosen the wrong animal, he must take the animal card and the pattern card out of the game; he has thus forfeited the chance for one of the four pattern cards corresponding to an animal card. When nobody can place a correct animal card, the pattern card goes out of the game, too.

When all pattern cards have been turned over you win if you could collect the most pattern cards.

Like all simple games this one, too, has its own attraction; the patterns are simply done, the colors are easily distinguished and the hole in the animal card is an especially nice idea; that way you can see rather well when placing the card whether the correct pattern is visible. The control mechanism with the butterflies is an additional training to recognize arrangements and directions, the animals are cute and easily recognized despite a certain abstract presentation.

Players: 2-4

Age: 4+

Time: 10+

Designer: Thomas Liesching, Susanne Kummer

Artist: Susanne Kummer

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Huch & friends

Web: www.huchandfriends.de

Genre: Pattern recognition, reaction

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very nice simple game for travel

Animals easily recognized

Patterns easy to distinguish

Compares to:

Reaction and pattern recognition games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 0