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Was ist Was Junior

Mein erstes Quiz

The  „Was ist was Das Quizspiel“ now has acquired something like a younger brother, explores have turned into pirates which are moving about on the abstract board. The tasks come from four different categories: Language, Daily Live/Environment, Colors/Shapes and Numbers/Amounts. As usual, the die determines the number of steps you can move and the color of the spot reached with your move determines the category. In your turn you roll the die and move your pirate, in any direction, but you cannot change direction in a move. Then you draw a card in the color of your location. The big picture shows a self-explaining task, underneath three possible solutions are depicted. You choose one of the solutions and take the card between thumb and forefinger in a way that the spot showing the solution of your choice is covered. When you turn over the card and your index finger is next to the wing of the parrot you picked the correct solution and you receive the card.  If you are first to collect 5 cards you win. Possible variants would be to use more cards for a longer playing time; or each player must collect at least one card of each color, if you then have most cards at the end of the round you win; or you solve an additional task if you are standing on a spot of your own color at the end of the game; if you solve correctly you earn a bonus point.

That you can play the game without being able to read is correct, but adult assistance is recommended all the same, because some tasks might need a bit of explanation first; basically the game offers a very good selection of tasks and the self-control mechanism in ingeniously derived.

Players: 2-4

Age: 4+

Time: 15+

Designer: Anja Wrede

Artist: Stefan Lohr, Oliver Freudenreich

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2011

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Quiz game

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very good control mechanism

Can be played alone after some explanations

Trains vocabulary and allocation

Compares to:

Was ist was Quizspiel and other quiz games for this age group

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): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0