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Das Winterspiel

Gingerbread, Skating and hot Dogs

The pond at the outskirts of the village has frozen over and many people have turned up to enjoy a sunny winter’s day. At the edge of pond little booths have been set up, where you can get hot chocolate or ginger bread or even a Hot Dog; players join in the fun, they want to try all the treats and have a hand at all activities.

In your turn you roll both dice and move your marker in two different directions, but not to and fro; for each direction you use one of the dice and move the number of steps indicated by it, you can choose the order in which to use the dice. If you move out of the board the marker enters the board again at the opposite side. If you reach a tile on your way that you do not want to pick up you turn it up; if it already open-faced you turn it back over again. Of course, you can take the tile. If you do so, your move ends on this spot and you immediately replace the tile by one drawn from the bag. Action tiles can be used in your following moves. The snowball allows you to take a symbol tile from another player, but not an action tile! The sledge lets you pick up two tiles in a move, your move ends when you picked up the second tile. The question mark tile is a joker replacing any symbol tile. If you have acquired three identical tiles you swap them at the corresponding booth for a golden victory point tile. When two booths have been emptied, you win with most points on your victory point tiles.

Das Winterspiel is a nice family game featuring standard mechanism and a cute topic, a good game for beginners and a game ideally suited for a winter evening with cookies and tea.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: not named

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 11 Euro

Publisher: Noris Spiele 2011

Web: www.noris-spiele.de

Genre: Roll & move game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Attractive, season-related topic

Very nice design

Simple mechanism

Good family game

Compares to:

All roll & move games with a collecting mechanism

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0