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Bibi Blocksberg

Der blubbernde Hexenkessel

It’s time for yet another exam in the school for witches; this time each of the young witches has to brew two potions; the ingredients must be correct and the brewing must be done within the time frame, or the cauldron explodes. Players choose brewing the Merk-mich-Hextrank or the Husch-husch-Hextrank, for each potion there is a separate game. Both games can be played  in one of three levels of difficulty, selected by pressing the respective button on the cauldron.

For the Merk-mich-Hextrank game, Bibi reads out a list of ingredients, players memorize type and number of ingredients. In turn, players take one ingredient, throw it into the cauldron and press the corresponding button on the cauldron, the order of ingredients is not important. Bibi announces if the ingredient is correct or not; she allows two mistakes and unlimited time. If the third wrong ingredient is entered, the cauldron explodes.

In Husch-husch-Hexentrank, all players play with Bibi against the timer. All 36 ingredient tiles are distributed across the room. Bibi names an ingredient; players look for all four ingredients, put them into the cauldron and press the button for each individual tile. If necessary, you can take out a wrong ingredient before pressing the button. When time runs out, before all 24 out of 36 ingredients are in the cauldron, the cauldron explodes; time for searching varies with the level of difficulty.

Again, Bibi Blocksberg uses a thrilling gimmick; the electronic cauldron is attractive and easy to handle; mechanisms are simple, the rules are short and the fun to play is great in both variants.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 15+

Designer: Kai Haferkamp

Artist: Henriette Polak

Price: ca. 19 Euro

Publisher: Schmidt Spiele 2018

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: Memo, action

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Sound effects and Bibi’s voice

Attractive game unit

Easy to handle

Two versions

Compares to:

Bibi Blocksberg games for topic, memo games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

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Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 2