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Alter                    6

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Flinke Fliegen

Catch a fly to get some cake

Flies want to eat cake, but the flycatcher is on the watch. Players alternate in being flies or flycatchers, all want to collect most of the cake with most cherries on them. If you currently play a fly, you hold the strings of two adjacent flies. If you are the catcher of the round you roll the die and try to catch a fly wearing clothes of the pattern rolled. If one of your flies shows such a garment, you quickly draw the fly away from the cake before the flycatcher can slap it with his swatter. The patterns on the die are valid for all colors and colors are valid for all patterns. If no fly shows the pattern from the die the catcher my try to get any fly and so all players are allowed to pull their flies away. For correctly caught or incorrectly withdrawn flies the catcher takes a piece of cake from the fly owner. For an incorrectly caught fly the flycatcher gives a piece of cake to the owner of the fly. Then the flycatcher has a second turn to catch flies. When this second attempt has been scored, the next player in turn becomes flycatcher, the former catcher takes over his flies. When each player has been flycatcher at least once and one player is out of cake pieces, the winner is the player with most cherries on his pieces of cake.

The combination with the cake topic and the garments turns a well-known standard mechanism into a nice family game that makes you look really closely to make sure that you do not pull away the wrong fly. Especially nice is the marking for the alignment of the flies. This avoids errors and can also be changed for the 2^nd attempt for a more challenging game.

Spieler         : 2-5

Alter            : ages 6+

Dauer           : ca. 20 min

Autor           : Christoph Behre

Grafik          : Klemens Franz, Bluguy

Titel            : ident

Preis            : ca. 15,00 Euro

Verlag          : Kosmos 2011

www.kosmos.de

Genre                    : A game of dexterity and reaction

Zielgruppe             : For families

Version                           : de

Rules                              : de

In-game use of language   : no

Kommentar:

Standard basic mechanism

Very nicely varied

Topic fits the mechanism well

Trains observation and reaction

Vergleichbar:

Spitz pass auf! and other reaction games with a catch/pull away mechanism

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