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Dr. Eureka

Marbles in test tubes

Marbles in three colors represent molecules in test tubes and must be re-arranged according to templates. The experiment templates are depicted on task cards, stacked face-down. Each player takes three test tubes and places two marbles into each tube, purple, blue and green from left to right!

The top task card is revealed and all players try simultaneously to achieve the depicted arrangement by shunting marbles between test tubes: You pick up two test tubes at a time and transfer one or more marbles from one tube into the other. It is forbidden to touch a marble with your hand and marbles must not fall out of test tubes. Should it happen that you let a marble fall out of a tube or touch it with your hand, you are out of play for the current round. There is room for maximum four marbles in each test tube.

Sometimes, it might not be necessary to move marbles from one tube to another, it could be sufficient to switch positions of two test tubes. It is also allowed to up-end a test tube, but take care, you cannot reverse this move!

If you have achieved the arrangement on the card, you call „Eureka!“ and receive the task card, if your arrangement of marbles and tubes is correct. If you make a mistake here, you are also out of play for the round. Whoever collects five cards first, wins. You can decide on a longer game with more cards necessary to win or play all card and the winner is who has most cards.

3D shunting for all the family! Topic and mechanism go nicely together, and the mix of dexterity, spatial thinking and planning ahead is very neat and good! Abstract games can be nice games for the family!

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Roberto Fraga

Artist: Stéphane Escapa, Fiore GmbH

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2017

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Shunting

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en es fr gr it fr pl pt ru

In-game text: no

Comments:

Classy, attractive components

Good practice for spatial thinking and dexterity

Nice family topic

Compares to:

Shunting games

Other editions:

Bard Centrum (pl), Blue Orange (en), Blue Orange EU (de en es fr it nl pt ru), FoxMind (he), Kaissa (gr), Lúdilko (es), White Goblin (nl)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 1