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Mauerhüpfer

MäDn with a difference

Mensch ärgere Dich nicht! turns 100!  This jubilee is celebrated with a variant called Mauerhüpfer. The differences begin with the track, it is no round track, but a straight meandering line from start to finish with two marked finish spots for entry to the finish areas.

Between the segments of the track you find walls that are marked with numeric dice values, each wall caries eight numbers. You roll two dice and use both results for the same marker. You can choose the direction for movement and can change direction when the first result has been completely used. If your marker sits on a position of the track adjacent to a wall number for which you have an unused dice result, you can jump across the wall. If possible, you can use two results to jump over walls twice. If you end your turn on a spot that is already taken you send the marker already there back to the starting area. There is now obligation to send a marker back. When you move in the same direction for both results you only defeat the marker on the final spot for the second move. Should you change direction after the first move or do a wall jump, you defeat the marker on the "temporary stop". When you have completed both results and your marker then sits on a Z spot, that is, a finish entry spot, you can put the marker into your finish area. If you are first to assemble all markers there, you win.

Together with the backwards moves and the use of two dice the walls provide quite a bit of tactic, albeit without changing anything about the huge chance element in the game. If people think too much the game can get longish, but all in all the experiment was successful.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 40+

Designer: Norbert Tauscher

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Schmidt Spiele 2014

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: roll & move

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Anniversary edition for 100 Years Mensch ärgere Dich nicht

New rule walls and moving back

More tactic, still the same amount of luck

Compares to:

All other editions of Mensch ärgere Dich nicht

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): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0