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Schnapp die Nuss!

sQuirrels on the hazelnut path

Squirrels are hopping along the hazelnut path and collect nuts instead of hopping into bed. Mama Squirrel pursues them and when she has overtaken all squirrels, the squirrel with most nuts wins.

Each player has three squirrels of a color - or four squirrels in a game of two players - that begin at the start. The board is equipped with hanging bridges and Mama Squirrel begins on the starting space corresponding to the number of players, the nut tokens are set out.

The active player rolls both the color die and purple Mama Squirrel die: When the color die shows a color, you move one of your squirrels to the next empty spot of that color. When this spot shows a nut, you take a nut token. When the color die shows a nut, you jump forward to the next empty spot showing a nut, regardless of the color of the spot, and take a nut token.

When the purple die result for Mama Squirrel shows a squirrel, Mama Squirrel jumps to the next purple Mama Squirrel spot of the color corresponding to the squirrel color on the die face. When Mama Squirrel passes a hanging bridge, the bridge is removed. When Mama Squirrel overtakes a squirrel, this squirrel is placed in the nut cache belonging to the hazelnut path segment, remains there till the end of the game and its owner receives the number of nuts depicted on the cache. When all squirrels are at the finish or in a nut cache, you win with most nuts.

A nice topic for children, the game features cute components; the squirrels are very pretty, there are more than enough nut tokens and the rules are simple and based on standard mechanisms, which are nicely combined.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 15+

Designer: Anna Oppolzer, Stefan Kloß

Artist: Tanja Aldebot

Price: ca. 18 Euro

Publisher: Schmidt Spiele 2017

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: Roll, move, collect

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice topic for children

Standard mechanisms, nicely combined

Some tactic in selecting of squirrel to move

Compares to:

Roll & collect games in general

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0