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Race on deck of the Mary!

Petzi and his friends Pelle, Pingu and Seebär race each other to the upper deck of the Mary, but you can only run if you place your pancakes correctly.

Mary the Boat is assembled, either with five or - more difficult - with nine target cases. You select a catapult and a character, take the pancakes in the respective color and put your character on the starting case of his color on the Mary.

Cards are shuffled - for cards with a red border, all simultaneously shoot their pancakes on Mary, the card tells the target area: either a case with one of the characters standing on it, or a case with cord, anchor or steering wheel - depending on the card you might need to place several pancakes on a target or should place them on more than one target case. Every player has up to eight tries to meet the task; if you are first to meet it, you advance your pawn by one step. When several players meet the target at the same time, all of them advance by one case.

For a blue card you search for jam glasses under the pancake chips; you turn over as many of your left neighbor’s pancakes as the card indicates. Then all count their visible glasses and if you have most, you advance your character by one step. Whoever arrives at the upper deck first, wins.

In the expert version on the board with nine target cases you also use the cards with a green border; when such a card is revealed, all players in turn shoot one pancake at the target; if someone meets the task, the round ends instantly.

A very nice mix of race and dexterity elements, with nice characters and offering good practice for hand-eye-coordination and lots of fun!

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 20+

Designer: Wolfgang Dirscherl

Artist: Kreativbunker

Price: ca. 21 Euro

Publisher: Schmidt Spiele 2018

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: Race, dexterity

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Attractive 3D board

Good mix of mechanisms

Two levels of difficulty

Compares to:

Race games, catapult games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3