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Ausgefuchst!

hens on their roosts

Players are young foxes on their nightly prowl, wanting to steal six hens quickly and skillfully, for a dare! The frame for the game shows three hen portraits each to the left and right of a fox image on each side and is laid out. Each player sits down in front of such a row of portraits. All image tiles, showing those six hen portraits on backgrounds of different colors, are spread out, image side down, within the frame, plus a few fellow lodgers and two foxes, also face-down. Finally, you set up five wooden perches or roosts within the frame and place the five wooden chickens on them.

Now all players, simultaneously, use one hand to search among the tiles for images of their hens, regardless of background color, this is not important in the basic game, only the images of the hens must be matched. Hens that you have already collected, or fellow lodgers, are put back face down. If you are too hasty and push a chicken off its perch, all other players – never you as the one who pushed it off – may try to grab the chicken. If you manage to grab it, you can put it into your row of hens as a joker instead of any hen portrait tile. If two grab it, it goes out of play. If you have collected all hens in your row of portraits, either as a tile or as a chicken joker, and are then first to then find one of the two foxes, you call “Ausgefuchst” and win.

A cute and enchanting idea for a game for children that goes to show what one can do with basically standard mechanism when you manage to combine them cleverly. The dexterity/joker element of the chickens hugely upgrades the search/memo mechanism. What a fun game!

Age: 4+

Time: 15+

Designer: Thilo Hutzler

Artist: Johann Rüttinger

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Noris Spiele 2016

Web: www.noris-spiele.de

Genre: Search, memo, dexterity

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Enchanting game idea

Very attractive components, with wooden hens and roosts

Variants with rules for colors and adjacent hen portraits

High replay value

Compares to:

First game with this mechanism combination

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3