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Magic Maze Kids

From to King with a potion

Failed experiments have turned the king into a frog. Princess, Prince, Knight and Sorceress brew a potion to change him back and complete missions and collect ingredients.

Four double-sided boards introduce – from board A to board D – new rules and new creatures for obstacles. The basic mechanisms for all boards are that all players play simultaneously, may discuss and correlate their actions and can move any character at any time. Movement of characters is controlled by each player commanding – in relation to the number of players – one or two action tiles, each providing one direction of movement. To pick up an ingredient, you move onto the respective case; creatures must be circumvented. On Board A, you only collect ingredients; on Board B you collect ingredients and must meet other characters On Board C, characters command special abilities and the Minotaur is introduced as a new obstacle. Board D is used with a sand timer; each runtime of the timer introduces a new mission to the game that must be completed.

The game provides 11 tutorial games for all four boards to familiarize players with the rules; those tutorials are played on the back side of the respective boards. Furthermore, the rules provide optional additional challenges that can be added at will to every board and which can be combined any which way.

This is a very nice and well-made children’s version of Magic Maze: The ability to communicate facilitates game play without watering it down the fun to play is great and the challenges are exactly right – and for those who want more there is the XXL version on a floor mat, offering some rules extensions.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 20+

Designer: Kasper Lapp

Artist: Gyom

Price: ca. 22 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2018

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: simultaneous cooperative placement 

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de en es fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Jungle animal characters

Flair of the “big” game nicely caught

Communication facilitates cooperation

XXL game with rules additions is available

Compares to:

Cooperative move + collect games

Other editions:

2Tomatoes (es), Sit Down! (en, fr, nl, de)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 1

Action (dark green): 1