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Die Biene Maja

Tick Tack Tempo

On Maja’s corn poppy meadow you can find a very special flower, a flower clock! And Maja’s friend Willi is sitting in the middle of this clock, waiting for Maja - he wants to play with her. Therefore Maja must pass the moving hands of the clock to reach Willi.

 A pretty colorful clock serves as a game board; at the start the hands of the clock point to 10:00. Each player puts his Maja marker at the start of the spiral track that leads to Willi in the center. You roll the die and move Maja accordingly: If she reaches a yellow square, nothing happens. On a blue Flip Square you take a Flip card, if one is available, and store it openly. On a clock square you turn up the top clock card and move the hands to point at this new time. In doing so you first move the big hand and then the small hand, both hands are moved in clockwise direction. When a clock hand moves a Maja marker, you can countermand this by discarding a Flip card; the Flip card is put back onto the appropriate stack. When you cannot discard a Flip card, your Maja is put on the square immediately in front of the hand.

Each square of the flower clock only has room for one Maja, so your Maja goes to the next free spot in front, should you happen to end the move on a taken square. If your Maja reaches Willi first, you win.

This game provides a simple roll & move game with a mechanism similar to Ludo, it subtly and very efficiently trains analogue clock times and hand positions; this training has been marvelously integrated into the game and is thrilling for children to see if and how far a clock hand moves their Maja marker.

Players: 2-4

Age: 4+

Time: 10+

Designer: not named

Art: not named

Price: ca. 18 Euro

Publisher: Studio100Media 2012

Web: www.studio100.de

Genre: Roll & move, educational

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Beloved and well-known license topic

Pretty components

Subtly trains analog clock positions

Compares to:

Other educational games with a clock topic

Other editions:

Currently none

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