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Monsieur Carrousel

all kids want to ride the carousel

Twelve kids want a ride on the carousel, before it closes down for the days due to rain. The wooden carousel with circular slots over one of six double-sided image sheets in varying degrees of difficulty is assembled and placed on the board. The board is divided into two weather zones, has slots in the zones for sun rays and rain drops and depicts Monsieur Carrousel pointing his hand towards the wooden carousel.

The active player roll the day, selects a child disc and puts on a free slot in the die color in the carrousel; all memorize the image now covered by the disc. When all slots of the color indicated by the die are taken, you spin the carrousel and put the child on the slot indicated by Monsieur Carrousel’ s arm. If this slot is occupied, too, you must name the image hiding underneath and place part of a sun ray if you are correct - you must always complete a sun ray before you can begin another one; if you are wrong, you place a raindrop.

If you were able to place a disc, you spin the carrousel and then place, depending on the weather zone in which the current child disc now sits, sun ray or raindrop. When only one child is missing on the carousel, the active player can roll twice to achieve the necessary color for placement. When all children are placed before all raindrops slots are filled, all win together.

A very beautiful game featuring an attractive mix of mechanism; spinning the carousel even allows for a teeny weeny bit of tactic if you manage to dose the momentum and thus maybe avoid placement of a raindrop. The varying length of sun ray pieces is another clever detail!

Players: 1-6

Age: 4+

Time: 15+

Designer: Sara Zarian

Artist: Apolline Etienne, Allison Machepy

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Loki 2019

Web: www.loki-kids.com

Genre: Cooperation, memo, dexterity

Users: For children

Special: 1 player

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Amazing components

Good mix of mechanisms

Compares to:

Cooperative memo games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 2

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0