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Ubongo Junior

Hippo, Ostrich and Bull!

Ubongo junior now offers the colorful placement fun now for smaller children, too. Instead of 12 abstract geometric shapes there are only nine in different colors, each one illustrated with an animal that fits the shape well. The game features 50 individual boards, each with an easy side, for which you need two animals, and a more difficult side, for which three animals are necessary. At the start of the game you decide which side you want to use and take 7 boards per player from the stack. Those boards are shuffled and placed in a stack for the game, with the side that you want to use hidden. As in the core game you draw a board, take the animals depicted on it from your stock and try to place the animals correctly on the white square spots of the board as fast as you can. All tiles must be placed within the borders of the white area and no squares in that area man remain empty. If you manage to place your animals within the time set by the timer you call out “Ubongo” and draw jewels from the bag; the number you can draw depends on the number of players and whether you managed to finish first, second or third, and so on. When all boards have been played you win with most jewels. There is a rule how to combine Ubongo with Ubongo junior: For each player 6 boards are taken from the respective game, adults roll the special dice for the shapes they need to use.

Ubongo junior is a very attractive and felicitous version of the original Ubongo, the animal drawings give the still purely abstract game a cheerful flair and make it much more approachable, fun and challenge are great and entice one to play again and again!

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 20+

Designer: Grzegorz Rejchtman

Artist: Annette Nora Kara

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2012

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Placement game

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very attractive and cheerful design

Fewer shapes

Can be combined with the original game

Compares to:

All other editions of Ubongo

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): 3

Action (dark green): 0