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Glupschgeister

Jelly Fisch Ghost or Blowfish Ghost?

Six types of Glupschgeister– Jellyfish Ghost Lisa, Sea Horse Ghost Maggie, Moustache Ghost Don, Snails Ghost Luc, Blowfish Ghost Bob and Eel Ghost Al as well as Kraken Ghost Ed are making mischief in the Deep Sea. Players are ghost hunters and must look closely because the ghosts are very similar to each other.

The playing area is set up with the big Deep Sea disc loaded with ghost tiles, a small spinner disc with window and a board featuring sea holes and sea covers working as magnifying glasses. One player rolls the die and turns the disc accordingly. The Glupschgeist now visible in the window is identified by name or type and you look by yourself for such ghosts in the Deep Sea through the sea covers on the board. If you find one, you mark and block the window with your starfish. When all starfishes have been placed, players in playing order of the turn open their sea covers marked with their starfish and fish for ghosts from the Deep Sea. You can fish for more suitable ghosts by shunting the ghost tiles around with your fingers. This can change the situation for the following players. However, each player can fish and shunt tiles, even if he does not immediately see a suitable ghost when removing his cover. You place all ghosts corresponding to the one in the window into your cache. If you are first to have stashed nine ghosts in your cache, you win.

What an attractive variation of a familiar game mechanism! The components are marvelous, the Turning, Spotting and Fishing for ghosts works a treat and is lots of fun. A variant “Gemeiner Krakengeist” can be played by older children or as a family game.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 20+

Designer: Jens-Peter Schliemann, Bernhard Weber

Artist: Andreas Resch, anoka.de

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2016

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Spotting, collecting

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: nein

Comments:

Very attractive, lavish components

Easy rules

Use of Sea cover magnifying glasses needs supervision

Compares to:

Spotting games about similarities

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 1

Action (dark green): 1