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Das kleine Ich bin ich

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The book by Mira Lobe tells the story of a little animal that looks a bit like many other animals and goes searching for its identity. After a long journey it realizes that it is simply itself and not anybody else. The game tells the story: players start at the flower meadow and journey from animal to animal. Each player chooses one of the pieces and puts it on the flower meadow, separates his puzzle and places the parts face-down around the pattern board. Each part is marked on the back with one of the four animals – frog, horse, hippo or dog.

In your turn you roll all three dice and can then decide if you want to roll again and which ones to re-roll, all in all you can roll three times.  Then you implement the results: For each self symbol showing on the dice you can move your marker one step forward, if you want. For each animal in your roll you check if you stand on a spot showing this animal; if yes you take a puzzle part marked with this animal, turn it over and place it on your board. You can combine the results of the dice any way you like, so you can take an animal, move one step to reach the next kind of animal and take a puzzle part again. If you are first to complete your puzzle and get back to flower meadow you win.

The animals are pictured with different frequency on the track, frog and horse are present in two sections, dog and hippo only in one, longer section each; so you can use a little bit of tactic in deciding where to take from or horse. The game is a very beautiful and felicitous transformation of the book and the story is still after 40 years, for both readers and players.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 15+

Designer: Wolfgang Dirscherl

Artist: Susi Weigel, Mira Lobe

Price: ca. 27 Euro

Publisher: Selecta 2012

Web: www.selecta-spielzeug.de

Genre: Roll & move

Users: For children

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Rules: de

In-game text: no

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