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Kritzeln

faultlessly From point to point

You are surely familiar with the well-known logic puzzle of connecting a grid of points in an uninterrupted line and without doubling a line? The solution is to go outside the grid with the line to make the necessary turn.

Kritzeln works in a similar way, insofar as you need to duplicate templates onto a grid of 16 x 16 dots.

In as many rounds as there are players, each player is given a template sheet and a grid sheet, and you can decide if you want to use a template showing grid dots or one without grid dots. All players draw simultaneously. You start at the point marked with an arrow, must draw a continuing line, must not leave out any dot in the grid and lines must not cross each other. If you are done, you put  template sheet and your grid sheet on top of each other and hold them against the light for checking and win the round, if all is correct. If not, all continue to play until someone wins. In the following rounds, you always get the template of your right neighbor. If, in a round, nobody produced a correct duplicate, the round is repeated with the same templates; if again nobody is correct, there is no winner for this round. When all rounds have been played, you win with most won rounds.

Kritzeln is one of those games that I call multiplayer solitaire games; all play for themselves, nobody interferes with others, only your own abilities decide the outcome, like here. You have your template and only your speed with which you can duplicate it, decides the outcome – oh, erasing is expressively allowed. If you use templates without grid, it gets really challenging, you need good observation powers for that.

Players: 1-4

Age: 8+

Time: 15+

Designer: Bernd Beckers

Artist: Visid GmbH

Price: ca. 7 Euro

Publisher: Schmidt Spiele 2018

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: Faultless template duplication

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nicely done challenges

Age limit seems low

Beautiful drawings, which are titled

Compares to:

Games demanding faultless template duplication

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 0