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John Deere

Johnnys Farm

John Deere manufactures machines for agricultural purposes, Siku manufactures model vehicles and when a games company cooperates with both of them the result is a cute game on the topic of a farm where a model tractor called Johnny is doing all the work on the farm. In your turn you roll the die: For a fruit, vegetable or grain symbol you drive the tractor to the corresponding field and turn over one of the four harvest chip that were placed there at the start of the game – if it shows the color of your trailer you can take it and place it in the trailer. If you roll a symbol that you already have in your trailer you drive the tractor once around the board, just for fun! If you roll the house symbol you drive the tractor to the farm and look after the animals. You can choose the animal which you want to assist: The horses neigh and want to be taken to the pasture – all players hop around the room like a horse. Dog Bello is hungry – all players bark and the active player feeds them – either with real tidbits or just by pantomime. Kitten Mia wants to be cuddled; the active player strokes his neighbor and the other players meow and purr. Cock Hanno crows because Cow Erna needs to be milked – all players chant the verse about Erna. If you manage to be the first to fill your trailer with all four chips you win the game.

With the exception of “cute” and “felicitous” one need not say much more, the tractor is a nice enticement for playing, the topic is nice for children and goes well with the mechanism, and the rules are simple and short, exactly right for beginners. All the action is fun, too!

Players: 2-4

Age: 3+

Time: 10+

Designer: Tom Schuster

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 21 Euro

Publisher: Schmidt Spiele 2011

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: Memo and action game

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Cute model tractor

Nice topic for children

Very simple rules

Good mix of memo and action

Compares to:

All collecting games with dice-determined destinations

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): w

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 2