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Fröschlein spring!

From Water Lily to Water Lily

Eight frogs sit in the middle of the pond on a big water lily leaf and players want to lure as many as possible to their corner of the board. 24 disc tokens in six colors are shuffled face-down for dice and stacked face-down, each player receives two frog tiles of value 1 and two of value 2.

The active player reveals the top dice token and moves a frog of his choice – all frogs on the board can be moved by all players – along one of the white connecting lines to the next free water lily spot of the revealed color; the dice tile is put back under the stack. If no suitable free spot is available for any frog, you can do the “hop it“ trick – you move a frog to an occupied case of the revealed color and push the frog on this spot along the white line to the next spot; when this spot is taken, too, you move the frog there by one spot, too. In those “hop it” action the color of the spots on which frogs are pushed does not matter. If there is no suitable spot of the revealed color available for any frog in a distance of one step, you can either pass your turn or use one of your frog tiles of value 1 or 2 and place any from on a spot of any color in a distance of one or two steps, according to the tile value. You win, if you are first to assemble two frogs in your corner of the board.

Fröschlein spring! is a very pretty and already rather challenging game for the targeted age group; with each frog that is collected by a player the movement options for the remaining frogs are reduced and you need to plan; luck of the draw, clever use of frog tiles and using the „hop it“ move at the right moment can help.

Players: 2-4

Age: 4+

Time: 20+

Designer: Michael & Heidemarie Rüttinger

Artist: Michael & Heidemarie Rüttinger

Price: ca. 7 Euro

Publisher: Noris Spiele 2015

Web: www.noris-spiele.de

Genre: Roll, move and collect

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Attractive components

Nice topic

Demands a bit of tactic

Compares to:

Movement games with chain moves

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

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