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Bubbles

14 is bigger than 5

The game features 24 double-sided cards; one side shows a blue-grey frame, the other side an orange frame. On each card side bubbles with funny faces are depicted, there are always four bubbles in fours colors and in four different sizes. Four dice in the four colors of the bubbles carry numbers of different values, ranging from 1 to 23, each dice has high and low numbers..

You decide on a level of difficulty: The side showing an orange frame is easier, the bubbles in each image are sorted by size; blue-grey is a bit more difficult, the bubbles are not sorted, but arranged randomly. You lay out the cards individually and can also of course lay out a mixture of orange and blue-grey frames.

The active player rolls all dice; the results indicate the size relations of bubbles on the card you need to find. All players simultaneously search for the card corresponding to the result. For instance, for red 20, green 19, yellow 14 and blue 5 the card must show the red bubble as the biggest one, followed by green and yellow, the blue bubble must be the smallest. If you spot the card, you take it and put it down open-faced. When the same result appears again, you can take a card from another player, too. If you are first to collect four cards, you win.

A very simple idea which demands a lot from players of the targeted age group - colors must be considered as well as number values and image sizes; in the example I cited the red bubble is much bigger than the green one, but number values only differ by 1. Bubbles is a very well-working exercise in abstract correlation of values, and is a lot of fun, too!

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 15+

Designer: Wolfgang Dirscherl

Artist: Robert Bayer

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2015

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: Dice, parameter comparison

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: cz de en fr hu it nl pl sk

In-game text: nein

Comments:

Extremely simple rules

Demands comparison of different units

And also simultaneous consideration of several parameters

Compares to:

All games featuring size comparison

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