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Spooky Wooky

Ghosts in patched-up cloaks

When romping in the attic the little ghost children tear their cloaks and Mama Ghost mends them with various patches of different patterns and shapes. Players are asked to help to catch the little ghost children.  

Tiles with ghost children show them wearing cloaks with one, two or three patches in seven different shapes and three different colors; those tiles are spread out face down on the table without touching each other. In the basic game only the shape of the patches is considered:

The active player turns over a tile and shows it to all players – when another tile with patches of this shape is already visible, you put your hand on this tile as fast as you can. You are only allowed to use one hand and the hand must lie flat on the table until a new tile is revealed. IF you were quickest and covered the correct tile, you take the tile. The newly revealed tile remains on the table open-faced. If no corresponding tile was found, the newly revealed tile also remains open-faced on the table.

In the advanced game there are two different versions; you either search for tiles showing cloaks with patches of the same shape and color or showing the ghost children in cloaks with the same number of patches in the same color. In all three versions of the game, you win the game with most tiles, when all tiles have been revealed.

Well, nice drawings with cute little ghosts. The shapes of the patches are easily distinguished, as are the colors, and the mechanism of reaction to correlations on different tiles is basically standard, but always attractive to play and offers a good exercise in reaction and pattern recognition.

Players: 2-6

Age: 5+

Time: 20+

Designer: Reiner Knizia

Artist: Arthur Wagner

Price: ca. 11 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2016

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: Spotting, reaction

Users: For children

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: cz de fr hu it pl sk

In-game text: no

Comments:

Standard mechanisms

Pretty drawings

Several variants

Compares to:

Other spotting and reaction games

Other editions:

Currently none

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