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Top That

Coin and rabbit in the top hat

Magic tricks for all the family! You build a stack of items familiar from magic tricks on a stage - will you manage to make the white rabbit disappear from time to time?

Each player receives one magical set, comprising one black top hat, one red cup, one orange pipe, one green coin and one white rabbit.

Furthermore, the game comprises 55 card showing images of those items.

The top card of the stack is revealed for a round, all players try simultaneously to arrange all or some of the items in a stack. The stacking must be done adhering to several rules:

Items that are depicted in their color must be visible - items depicted in grey must be hidden within other items - items not depicted on a card must be set aside, they cannot be in the stack either visible or invisible. Hidden means that the item is not visible if you view the stack from the front side, that is, from the point of view of the player who built the stack. When viewed from the side, an item may be partly visible.

If you think that your stack is correctly build, you call “top that”. Then you control the stack, if the task is completed correctly. If yes, you receive the task card. If you made a mistake, you are out of play for the round and another player has the chance to call “top that”. If you collect five task cards first, you win the game. Players can agree on other end-of-game / winning conditions. In an advanced version, you are not allowed to hide items in items that are ringed with stars.

Simple, but not always easy. Some tasks demand quite some thinking about the arrangements as well as speed; the game is marvelous practice for spatial thinking.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Thierry Denoual

Artist: Stéphane Escapa, Fiore GmbH

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2017

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Dexterity, stacking

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en es fr it pl pt ru

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simple rules

Some challenging tasks

Good practice for spatial thinking

Compares to:

Stacking games with templates

Other editions:

Blue Orange (en, es, fr, it pt, ru), Foxgames (pl), Lúdilo (es)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 1

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3