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Checker Can

The Checker Quiz

Checker is someone who asks questions and does so since October 2011 on the TV on KiKa and ERSTE, questions that many people would like to know the answers to, but don’t have the courage to ask for. “Why do shoes smell?”

The game board features a round track through Checker’s digs - you place your marker onto the start-finish area. The quiz cards are stacked - each poses a question, names three answers and shows two different numbers, one is marked with an x. The number NOT marked with an x plus the background color of this number directs you to the correct solution: You pick up the solution card with this number and if you turn it over you see four color frames holding letters; the background color of the number on the question card tells you the color of the frame for the letter for the correct solution. You roll a die to determine the question. Question and answers are read to you, you give a guess and can - if you want to - use a Checker Chip for more information or use Checker Chat to copy the answer of another player. When all have answered using a letter chip, the game master finds out the correct solution and checks your guesses. If you are correct you move one or two steps. When you roll a Five the player in last place is asked a yes/no question and moves a step for a correct answer. CC as a die result offers a bonus question. When adults and children play together, children get two and three points respectively for correct answers and bonuses.

A really good quiz game for children, answering those questions for which adults don’t have an answer - what does a balloonist do to answer nature’s call?

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Julia Coschurba

Art: Ortrud Müller, Götz Rohloff, Klemens Franz, Andreas Resch

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2012

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Quiz game

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: de

Comments:

Witty and funny selection of questions

Interesting due to TV Show

Good as a family game, too

Compares to:

Was ist was? and other quiz games on non-fiction topics

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): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0