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Ponder

The fastest frog of the Family

My funny, colorful rather blasé frogs want to cross the pond to the other side, just as the frogs of my fellow players. As no frog can jump that far they must move over the water lily leaves. Movement possibilities are governed by movement cards. A move comprises first moving a water lily leaf, then moving a frog and, finally, drawing a card. First you must relocate a water lily leaf which is located immediately adjacent to one of your frogs, even diagonally, onto any empty square. You must move a leaf in your turn. Then you must move a frog, in one of the directions allowed by your current open-faced movement card, but you need not move as far as the card would allow. If you cannot make either a frog move or a leaf move, your own frog must paddle, that is, move one step into an adjacent spot together with the leaf it is currently sitting on. If you jump over a frog you attack it. The attacked frog is rolled like a die: if ends up on its side or on its back, the attacker wins and the loser is relocated to an adjacent square. When the frog lands in an upright position, it wins and relocates the attacker. When the frog lands on its belly or on its nose it tumbles into the water and must go back to its starting bank. At the end of the move you draw your movement card for the next round. If you are first to get all three frogs to the other side of the pond you win.

Of course you try to hinder opposing frogs as you can see from the movement card where a frog of another player could/will move in its next turn. Funny, witty, fun to play, a top top family game with dash of tactics!

Players: 2-4

Age: 7+

Time: 30+

Designer: Isabel Holmberg

Artist: Mindtwister

Price: ca. 28 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2011

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: Movement game with cards

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en se

In-game text: no

Comments:

Familiar topic, wittily varied

Nice mix of well-known standard mechanisms

Tactics due to open movement cards

Very pretty components

Compares to:

Waterlily for the topic, Die lustigen Frösche for the mechanism, Schweinerei for rolling the frogs

Other editions:

Ponder, Mindtwister AB

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0