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Die Bunte Bande

Fisch and worm between circles

You want to connect your own circles with varying shapes of varying colors.

Each player has four circles of a color - blue, pink, grey and light green. One circle per player is placed in the middle in a way that it touches the other player’s circles, that is, making up a square. The remaining circles are laid out around the middle square, with about a hand’s width distance; there should be room between circles and circles of a same color must not be adjacent and should not be too near to each other. 36 tiles of six different shapes - fish, mushroom, worm, starfish, duck and pawn - and have six colors - yellow, orange, blue, purple, dark green and red - and are laid out in a random heap; for each shape there is one copy in every color.

The active player rolls the die and takes any shape of the resulting color and puts it on the table to touch a circle - your own or that of another player - or another shape. When there is no suitable shape left in stock, you take any shape of the rolled color and put it another spot on the table. In this way, each player tries to be first to connect his own four circles with shape tiles. The player who manages to achieve this first, wins instantly.

Cheerful, colorful, simple and fun to play, and, at the same time, easy, unobtrusive practice for spatial thinking and position allocation; you can, for instance, put the fish and the starfish mouth to tip or put the head of the pawn into the hollow of the mushroom or the starfish - this can help to cover long distances or the avoid to give too much advantage to other players for connecting their own circles faster than you yourself.

Players: 2-4

Age: 4+

Time: 15+

Designer: not named

Artist: Johann Rüttinger

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Noris Spiele 2017

Web: www.noris-spiele.de

Genre: Shape placement

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice components

Simple rules

Good training for position allocation

Compares to:

Games with spatial arrangements

Other editions:

Currently none

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