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Kakerlacula

cockroach to the moon

Kakerlacula, the vampire cockroach in the guise of a nano HEXBUG, roams through the haunted castle. Players move, protected by garlic, around the castle and try to light a candle in every room to drive off Kakerlacula, who of course tries to hinder them.

Players start in the nursery; Kakerlacula is racing around the castle. You roll a die and move your pawn accordingly towards a candle chip of your color, one step for each room you enter or cross. If you reach a chip, you turn it over, the room is now lit up. If Kakerlacula is running around in the room or across the room where you pawn is standing, and does not touch it, nothing happens. If, however, you are touched or shifted by Kakerlacula, you go to the nursery and discard a garlic chip from the nursery into the castle moat. Kakerlacula might also shift candle chips to other rooms.

If Kakerlacula runs onto the catapult square, you pick him up and try to shoot him to the moon, through the gap in the moon wall, that is. If you succeed, all garlic in the moat goes back to the nursery; if Kakerlacula ends up in the moat, one garlic chip is returned to the nursery. When all candles are lit, players win. When all garlic is used up before that, Kakerlacula wins.

In the competitive variant, you take lit-up candle chips and have to return one if you are touched by Kakerlacula; then you can win them back, one a time, when you manage to shoot Kakerlacula to the moon.

Hectic – quickly moving away before Kakerlacula arrives; thrilling – do we have enough garlic, can my neighbor shoot Kakerlacula to the moon to retrieve some garlic? An enchanting mix offering lots and lots of fun.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Inka and Markus Brand

Artist: Janos Jantner

Price: ca. 40 Euro

Publisher: Ravensburger 2018

Web: www.ravensburger.de

Genre: Action, Hexbug game

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Reliable, attractive game element

Nice story

Well-designed combination of HEXBUG and catapult

Compares to:

All games in the Kakerla-Serie featuring the nano HEXBUG

Other editions:

Ravensburger (de en es fr it nl)

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 2