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Flotte Wolle

HURDLE JUMPS WITH DICE

Show jumping at the gaming table, and the competitors in front of the first hurdle are not horses, but sheep! The wooly jumpers must cross a total of four hurdles in ascending degrees of difficulty in order to win the tournament.

Four hurdle bars are marked with one to four lines and show possible dice results on all four sides; those bars are laid out in ascending order with a hand’s width distance in between to form the show-jumping course for the competition. All players put their sheep in front of the first hurdle. Now you determine which result you must achieve for your sheep to jump over this hurdle. You pick up the bar, roll it onto the table from your hand and put it back in its place showing the result you rolled: X marks any number of dots, so XX would be a double, any two dice showing the same number. For each hoof symbol your result must show one die showing a hoof and the numbers 1-4 or 2-5 demand exactly these results on your dice, a sequence of those of numbers, in other words, a straight as in Poker.

Then you roll all five dice and have a maximum of three tries to achieve the necessary result for the first three hurdles and four tries for the last hurdle; you set aside suitable dice and re-roll the remaining ones. When you have jumped the hurdle you put your sheep in front of the next one. If you are first to cross the fourth hurdle with your sheep, you win.

Flotte Wolle is part of a new series of family games from Noris, and absolutely meets this claim! It is a cute, fast family game with nicely combined familiar mechanisms and an attractive topic; the components are made from wood!

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 20+

Designer: Christian Beiersdorf

Art: not named

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Noris Spiele 2012

Web: www.noris-spiele.de

Genre: Dice game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

New series Happy Family

Nicely varied standard mechanisms

Attractive topic for a family game

Compares to:

Würfelbohnanza and other dice games for specified results

Other editions:

Currently none

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