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Bumpi

Flatten the Cube!

Wanted: The correct Bumpi Cube! What is a Bumpi Cube? Well, not a normal cube in the true sense, but a cube that is missing one side, the bottom, so to say. The five sides that are there are carrying images of animals and/or colors, in varying formations; the middle square of the - when laid out flat - always cross-shaped arrangement of sides is always the so-called Bumpi square, a red & white splash. A rubber band inside the cube keeps the sides together, so that the cube is standing upright.

Eight of those five-sided Bumpi Cubes are set out, all the task cards are shuffled and stacked face-down. The top task card is turned up. Now all search for the Bumpi Cube on which the image arrangement corresponds to the task card. For searching, you press the red & white Bumpi square on top of the cube down with your finger, which causes the five sides of the cube to flatten out on the table. If you found the correct cube, you announce this and receive - after a check - the task card. Unsuitable cubes are released by lifting the finger again, the cube springs back up. If, however, you announce an incorrect cube, you lose a task card, that is, if you already got one. Task cards demand animals on colored backgrounds, groupings of two animals or any two animals or arrangements of four colors. Whoever collects five cards first, wins.

This is really a spotting game with a difference! The mechanics of the cubes are ingenious, pressing them down flat makes checking of the arrangement easy and the fun is huge, at the start children usually keep pressing and releasing for the fun of the cubes springing back into upright position.

Players: 2-6

Age: 5+

Time: 20+

Designer: Brad Ross, Don Ullman

Artist: Markus Binz

Price: ca. 23 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2017

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: Spotting

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: cz de hu sk pl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Super cube mechanics

Simple game mechanism

Lots of fun to play

Compares to:

First game of its kind, image groupings in general

Other editions:

Currently none

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Knowledge (yellow): 1

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Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 2