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Pudding Wars

Spoon Fan and pudding plate

Puddings in the game are little conical plastic cups that are decorated with colorful paper stripes and circles all around and on top and then look like puddings with a face. You take all six puddings of a color and then in turn in counter-clockwise direction you place one of your puddings on the plate, three in case of three and four players and two in case of five and six players, in several levels, if necessary.

The active player rolls the die and then implements the resulting action: Fan three times or fan two times; for fanning you take the spoon-shaped fan and move it, the rule does not tell how often you wave the fan for one fanning action. Another action is to place one pudding on the plate and then fan once, or to place two puddings on the plate without fanning.

After the action you check if puddings touch the table. If yes, you hand them back to their owners. A pudding that is completely covered by another pudding is deemed to be out of play and can only be removed when the pudding covering it is removed. When the plate is empty at the start of any player’s turn all players place two puddings.

If you have to place a pudding and do not have one left, you need to pass your turn; should the placement involve fanning, however, you do it.

When have caused one or several puddings to move by another action than fanning you must pass your turn and the owner or owners put back their puddings on the plate. You win, when there are only your own puddings on the table at the end of your turn.

A cute game idea with nice, albeit fiddly to assemble. Movement by fanning works, once you have found out how to best move the spoon fan.

Players: 3-6

Age: 6+

Time: 30+

Designer: Kuraki Mura

Artist: Lucy, Qiuyin

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: : Swan Panasia 2015

Web: www.swanpanasia.com

Genre: Dexterity

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: cn en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very fiddly assembling

Minimal, not very clear rules

Interesting example of an Asian party game for children and families

Compares to:

First game of this kind, dexterity games in general

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