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Der Grüffelo

Das groSSe Schattenspiel

Picture cards depicts the shadow of a combination of an animal - fox, snake, mouse, frog or owl - and a forest item - flower, leaf, mushroom or fir cone. Each player is given a colored marker, the team marker is placed at the start of the track. The current Shadow master reveals the top shadow picture for as long as it takes him to slowly say "Schuhu-Schuhu-Schuhu", all other players memorize the shadow picture. Then the picture is covered again and all place their marker on the circle on the board which they believe holds the depicted combination. If someone thinks that the scene is not depicted on the board, he calls "Grüffelo" and does not place his marker. Then the card is taken out and turned over by the Shadow master: When at least one player has placed his marker on the correct scene, the team marker advances one step und all players who guessed correctly take a nut chip. Should "Grüffelo" be correct, everybody who called "Grüffelo" takes a nut chip. In each case of a Grüffelo appearance at the back of a card one mushroom tile is turned over. If nobody gives a correct tip, the Shadow master takes a nut chip. When the team marker reaches the final spot of the track before all four mushroom tiles are turned over, all win together; whoever has collected most nut chips is team-winner.

The game offers a nice version of a memo game and good practice for observation. The cooperative element is restricted to winning or losing the game together and to the advancement of the team marker already for one correct guess among all team members, there is no other joint decision or action. 

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 20+

Designer: Christine Basler, Alix-Kis Bouguerra

Artist: Julia Donaldsen, Axel Scheffler

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Schmidt Spiele 2014

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: memo, betting

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Little to no communication for cooperation

All in all good combination of mechanisms

Individual winner despite cooperative topic

Pretty components

Compares to:

All memo and guessing/betting games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red):

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0