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Invasion of the Cow Snatchers

Beam up cows, avoid obstacles!

Aliens came to Earth to study its most bizarre inmates, the cows! You are one of them and pilot the UFO across the farm, avoid obstacles and beam four cows and the bull into the UFO. The farm meadow features 16 squares and a transparent cover; the obstacles - fences, hay bales, corn fields and barns - are barriers that are placed in grooves between the squares; the silo is a building that covers one square. There are magnetic discs representing four cows in four colors and a red bull. IN each of the 60 puzzles in five levels of difficulty you place the obstacles shown on the task card and the cows as stated into the meadow and cover the meadow with transparent cover. The Ufo starts on top of the cover in the position given by the card and you slide it along the cover, always orthogonally, towards the cow of your choice. The order in which you pick up the cows does not matter in the first four levels, but the bull must always be the last disc to be picked up. The difficulty is presented by the varying heights of the obstacles - no cow can be flown across the barns, only one across the corn fields, two cows can be taken across the fences and three cows can go over the hay bales. If the silo is in play, you cannot cross it at any time. In the Genius level, you can store cows, but never the bull, temporarily on corn circles, and the puzzle gives a color sequence template for the cows that must be met to solve the puzzle correctly.

Thinkfun with an emphasis on fun! The magnetic component works well and the topic is cute in this nice addition to the range of logic puzzles, suitable not only for kids.

Players: 1

Age: 6+

Time: var

Designer: Bob Hearn

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 39 Euro

Publisher: Thinkfun / Ravensburger 2020

Web: www.ravensburger.de

Genre: Logic puzzle

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl pt

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice combination of mechanisms

Very pretty components

First levels rather easy

Compares to:

All logic puzzles involving shunting

Other editions:

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