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Back to the nest before sunrise!

The little owls go on nightly excursions of discovery in the woods, but they must be back in their nests before dawn breaks. Players work together to help them to be back in their nests on time.

Depending on the chosen level of difficulty you can use between three and six owls and place them on the respective starting spots. The tiles are stacked, each player starts with three open-faced tiles and all play in turn in clock-wise direction.

Each player implements three actions in his turn: Play one sun or color tile and discard it – move either the time marker or one owl according to the tile played – draw a tile from the stack and set it down open-faced. If you have a sun tile on display you must play it and move the time marker forward by one step towards sunrise. If not, you play a color tile of your choice and choose an owl that you move forward to the next empty spot in the color of the tile you played. Occupied spaces in this color in front of the owl you want to move are ignored and jumped over. If there is no spot of that color in front of the owl you move the owl into the nest. When all owls are in the nest before the time marker reaches sunrise, all players have won together.

This game provides a very simple mechanism which is challenging due to the cooperative element; it enables very young players to learn to plan game turns and to work together, because the more tiles of the same color you play n turn the further you can move an owl and of course no owl should be left too far behind. The cute little owl figurines make you want to play again if you turned up too many sun tiles.

Players: 2-4

Age: 4+

Time: 15+

Designer: Susan McKinley Ross

Art: Anne Pätzke, Maike Schiller

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Schmidt Spiele 2013

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: Cooperative movement game

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Enchanting playing pieces

Very simple mechanism

Trains cooperation, planning and some tactic

Compares to:

Movement games with color spots for advance mechanism

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0