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Dr. Microbe

Microbes and a super virus

First steps in laboratory work! The big Petri dish in the middle is filled with all microbes; the super virus is set aside for a variant. Each player has a small petri dish and forceps, 54 task cards are stacked face-down.

The top task card is revealed, and all try simultaneously to take fish microbes from the big Petri dish with their forceps to place them into their own dish. Placement rules are: you must put one microbe into each of the three small areas and the one big area in the dish; color, shape and position of the microbes must correspond to the constellation on the task card. If the task card shows empty dish areas, you must put a microbe into those empty areas as well. In this case, the microbe in the big area must be of different color and shape than those in the small areas; the microbes in the small areas must be of different shapes only, two of them must have the same color, the third one another color. If you drop a microbe on the table, you must use your forceps to put it back into the big Petri dish!

If you complete the task first, you announce “Dr. Microbe” and your dish is checked. If you are correct, you get the card. In case of a mistake you are out of the current round. Whoever acquires five cards first, wins.

In the Super Virus version, the Super Virus is placed at the start into a random the player dish, in later rounds into the dish of the winner of the previous round. The Super Virus is handed on to the left; while a player has it in his dish he cannot take microbes from the bid dish.

Huge fun with some logic, the game works well and also pleases with its pretty, functional components.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Roberto Fraga, Delphine Lemonnier

Artist: Stéphane Escapa, Jens Wiese

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2017

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Dexterity, logic

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: cn de en es en fr it nl pt ru

In-game text: no

Comments:

Attractive components

Difficulty of tasks nicely judged

Super Virus Variant

Compares to:

Position puzzles

Other editions:

Blue Orange (en fr), Blue Orange (multi), Broadway (cn), Ludilo (es) Rebel (pl), White Goblin (nl)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 2