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Über Stock & Stein

Across river and meadow to the ranch

Foal Cookie has sneaked out  of the pasture, and players embody the Horse Club friends Sofia, Hannah, Lisa and Sarah trying to work together to get the foal back to the Lakeside Riding Ranch before night falls.

Terrain strips are laid out according to specification, day side up, beginning with the friends’ secret trailer and ending with the Riding Ranch. Cookie begins on strip 1; twelve obstacles and ten titbits are placed on their respective spots on the strips, and you begin with one action tile.

Someone rolls four dice and then all players confer about the order of use for the resulting symbols. For the symbol of a terrain type adjacent to the terrain where Cookie stands, you may move Cookie to this terrain; if there is an obstacle on that terrain, you need two corresponding terrain symbols. The horse symbol lets you move Cookie one case up or down without a terrain symbol. For the half moon symbol, you turn the landscape strip that is furthest away from the Ranch and still shows the day side, over to the night side. If Cookie is on a night side landscape at the start of a round, you must set aside a landscape symbol without using it in this round. A clover leaf symbol gives you an action tile for help in case of missing symbols or against obstacles or for diagonal movement. Titbit chips on terrain cases are picked up. If Cookie reaches the Ranch with all titbits before all terrain strips have been turned to their night side, the game is won.

A pretty cooperative roll & move game with some tactical details; the topic is probably of most interest to girls and the original Schleich horse figurine is an additional incentive.

Players: 2-4

Age: 7+

Time: 20+

Designer: Christian Fiore, Knut Happel

Artist: Fiore GmbH

Price: ca. 21 Euro

Publisher: Schmidt Spiele 2018

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: cooperative, dice

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Comes with an Original Schleich horse figurine

Series Horse Club

Nice tactical elements for cooperative play

Compares to:

Cooperative roll & move games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0