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Roly Poly Dog

Easy Play Kids

Players are directing dogs Bella and Bello in digging for the best bones. In each round both dogs sit in the corner of the box featuring the kennel. In your turn you pick up the box, your left neighbor picks up the die. While he tries to roll the dog symbol as fast as he can, you try to move the box to move them into both the holes designated by the top burrowing card. If you manage to do so before your neighbor rolls the dog you call out “woof woof” and receive the burrowing card. When he manages to roll the dog, your neighbor calls “woof woof” and your turn ends. You hand the box to him and he hands the die to his left neighbor. If you hold three burrowing cards at the end of a round you win the game.

To get younger children acquainted with the mechanism you can play with one dog only, in this variant Bella must end up in one of the holes designated by the burrowing card.

The game can also be played without using the die – in this case you use the burrowing chips. These are laid out face down on the face-up burrowing cards. In your turn you maneuver Bello and Bella into any two holes, when both have ended up in a hole you may not go on moving them but take the burrowing chip from the card showing the two holes where the dogs are. If the chip has a bone on the back side you may keep it, if not, put it back! When there are only 8 chips left, the player having collected the most chips wins.

Roly Poly Dog is fun, the ears of the dogs even allow a certain element of control, if you tilt a dog on its ear it tends so slide along a bit on it instead of rolling – good training for eye and hand.

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 5 and up

Dauer           : ca. 15 min

Autor           : Christine Basler, Alix-Kis Bouguerra

Grafik          : Timo Grubing, Amadeus Rayhle

Titel german : Kugelhund

Preis            : ca. 7,00 Euro

Verlag          : Schmidt Spiele 2010

                     www.schmidtspiele.de        

Genre                    : Game of dexterity

Zielgruppe             : For children

Mechanismen         : Roll dogs into pre-set holes

Kommentar:

Series Easy Play Kids

Nice mechanism

Box used as board

Several game versions

Vergleichbar:

All dexterity games with a placement goal

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