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Simsala Hopp

What’s Hopping here?

At Castle Zauberstein magic is in air during the magical tournament, frogs are hopping and while in the air are turned into bunnies! But this magical feat alone would be too simple for such a tournament, so you must conjure most white bunnies and bunnies of your own color.

The tournament lasts several rounds and in each round you can win a cup; if you are first win two of those cups you win the tournament! In each round each player embodies a magician once, the other players are spectators and can collect tournament points, too. At the start of a round the animal tiles are distributed – with some distance between them - in the magical arena, showing frogs. The magician takes the wand and the spectators turn over the timer. The magician tries to turn the frogs into white bunnies and bunnies of his own color by knocking at the bottom of the foil floor of the arena from underneath; this makes the animal above the wand jump up. If you knocked hard enough the animal turns in the air and changes; when an animal flies out of the castle it is lost for the magician in this round. The spectators keep an eye on the timer and on bunnies in their own colors. When time runs out, spectators can use a Foul Spell and turn over one frog left in the arena by hand. Now each player scores for bunnies and advances his bat marker. If you moved your bat marker furthest in this round you receive a cup. For the versions Master Magic and Adults cats are introduced into the game.

Simply enchanting! Mechanics, mechanism, and story – all fits wonderfully and works wonderfully well! I want to play and chase cats!

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 20+

Designer: Inka and Markus Brand

Artist: Michael Menzel, Michaela Kienle

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2013

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Dexterity

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Enchanting idea

Wonderful implementation

Trains hand-eye coordination and strength control

Compares to:

First game of this kind

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 1

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