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Burg Mengenstein

Snipping and quantities

Quantities and their assessment are basic elements for competence in mathematics; Burg Mengenstein uses quantity assessment and comparison. There is a castle with a tower that is used as a dice tower and the battlements of the castle provide a scoring track for the knight markers.

Six symbol dice show six different symbols in three colors, the two-part snipping board shows the six symbols on their own, three color cases and three cases with two of the six symbols each. Symbols are assigned to colors and the categories of Knight, Mythical Creatures and Princess.

The active player throws all six dice and a marker into the tower. When the marker lands on the drawbridge, you use the small snipping piece and for the landscape the big one. Then you check which symbol, color or category appears most often in the dice results and you try to hit this case with the snipping piece. After snipping, you take, if you hit any of the cases and regardless of symbol quantities, all dice showing the symbol(s) or color in the case you hit and advance your knight as many steps; then the next player snips, takes dice and moves his knight, and so on. When all dice have been taken, the next player in turn throws all dice and the marker into the tower again. The first player to reach the finish on the castle wall wins. In a variant you bet on the dice result, throw the dice into the tower and move your knight for correlation between result and bet.

The governing of knight movement by the combination of dice symbols and snipping provides a well-working training for symbol recognition, quantity assessment and motor skills, quite a fantastic combination!

Players: 2-4

Age: 4-8

Time: 20+

Designer: Wolfgang Dirscherl

Artist: Michael Menzel

Price: ca. 14 Euro

Publisher: Ravensburger 2016

Web: www.ravensburger.de

Genre: Educational, dexterity, quantities

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice topic

Well combined mechanisms

Trains motor skills and quantity compilation

Compares to:

Snipping games, educational games on quantities

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