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Mein cooles Dino-Spiel

Hip bone for triceratops?

Dinosaurs - an all-time favorite topic with children. Four templates show Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Ouranosaurus and Stegosaurus, presented as skeleton silhouettes that have been split into individual, unconnected bones; a small image of the complete skeleton and the name of the dinosaur are shown in a corner of the template. For each dinosaur, there are the corresponding skeleton bones, cut from wood; they are all put into the bag. Each player choses one of the templates. In turn, players are active and roll the die: For a result of 1, 2 or 3 you may try, one by one, to grope for bones belonging to your dinosaur and to pull them out. When the bone belongs into the skeleton, you place it on the corresponding spot on the template. If the bone is not one of your own dinosaur, you put it back into the bag. If the die shows the symbol of two or three bones, you may take two or three bones from your template and assemble them; the joker symbol lets you draw a bone or assemble two bones. Whoever is first to assemble his dinosaur, wins.

Can you imagine a game cooler than this one? A game about assembling dinosaurs! The skeletons have been broken down very cleverly, many of the bone pieces fit several dinosaurs and the big, type-defining back bones are clearly different and easily distinguished, so that the pleasure of having found a suitable bone dominates. The parts are cut from sturdy material, are easily assembled and combine to a stable dinosaur that can easily be used as a toy for playing with after the game. A simple mechanism that has been ingeniously transplanted to 3D and a favorite topic.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 10+

Designer: Christian Fiore, Knut Happel

Artist: Sandra Kretzmann, Melanie Dahmen

Price: ca. 14 Euro

Publisher: moses. Verlag 2017

Web: www.moses-verlag.de

Genre: Grope, search, assemble

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Favorite topic for children

Fantastically varied mechanism

Can be used as a toy

Easily dismantled at the end of the game

Compares to:

Captain Silver and other tactile search games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 1