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Die frechen Mäuse

Bread, cheese and cat

Cheese, sausages, bread and old bits of junk - the whole attic is littered with those things and mice try to salvage them for themselves. The chips for cheese, bread, sausages and junk are placed - backside up - on the spots marked in blue, the mice start on the suitcase spot and the cat on the cat head symbol.

Players take turns clockwise. You roll and advance your mouse for a result of 1-4 for as many steps in any direction, but cannot pass over other mice and not end your move on a spot adjacent to the cat. The cat guards all six spots around her position. If you rolled the dice symbol you can choose the number of your steps. When your mouse reaches one of the item chips you pick it up. A bread chip can be swapped immediately for a chip of another player or kept. If you roll the cat symbol, you may put the cat in another location and place her on a new spot in the middle of six spots. Should there be cats on the spots surrounding the cat’s new position those mice are chased into mice holes in the corners of the board, the cat decides into which ones. At the end of such a cat turn the active player may move his mouse by one step. When only five chips are left on the board, you score three points for each cheese, two points for each sausage and one point for each bread. If you have collected most junk chips, you score six points. If there is a tie in the score, you win with most chips.

A very nice game for children, all in all, with a familiar topic and basically familiar mechanisms. The cute effect comes from the cat mechanism with which you can aggravate your dear fellow players quite a bit!

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 15+

Designer: Peter Neugebauer

Artist: Johann Rüttinger

Price: ca. 19 Euro

Publisher: Noris Spiele 2014

Web: www.noris-spiele.de

Genre: Dice, collecting

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Part of the “made from wood” series

Nice components, in the style of the series

Standard topic

Nice mechanism for the cat

Compares to:

All collecting games with using dice and different values for things you collect

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): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0