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Kleine Fische ganz groSS

Beware the octopus

Seven fishes for each 13 kinds are swimming in the sea; in twelve caves you can find advantages for the diver who goes to explore them. Players are those divers, explore caves and take pictures of the fishes.

The active player dives, resolves Octopus, Looting and Collecting and then refills the display. To dive, you move your diver according to his swimming orientation on an adjacent case, reveal the card and stop voluntarily or swim to the next case. If you swim along to another adjacent case, you reveal the card there and decide again. If, however, you turn up a second fish of a kind, you must turn both back over and also all that you turned up in between, your turn ends. If you have revealed a number of fish equal to a digit of a cave card, you can explore this cave, take the card for later use; your turn ends. Cave cards enhance the range of divers or Octopus, let you take a look at fish cards, repeat your roll, upgrade fish or give you victory points.

If you stop voluntarily, you move the Octopus maximum as far as your revealed fish show Octopus points and can use it to loot opposing divers’ fish; you name a number of fish and the player, roll the die and take those fish if your roll is higher than or equal to the number. Finally, you collect all open fish and refill the display. If this is not possible anymore, you win with the highest total from your most valuable fish of each kind, unused cave cards and treasure chests.

The pretty, purely chance-driven card game Kleine Fische has been upgraded in Kleine Fische ganz groß to an equally pretty board game for families, with much more tactic from the Octopus movement.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Peter Neugebauer, Stefan Wiewiora

Artist: Fiore GmbH

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Noris Spiele 2018

Web: www.noris-spiele.de

Genre: Collect, risk/stop

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Adaptation of Kleine Fische, Goldsieber 1997

More tactical than the card game

New, equally pretty illustrations

Very good family game

Compares to:

Kleine Fische; games using risk/stop mechanisms

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

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