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Storytelling

Sun, Piggies, and a Farm

One of four fairy tales is selected, one player is the narrator and tells the story with the help of cards. Players are tasked with finding the currently needed images. The tiles for the story are shuffled and set out face-down in a 4x4 grid, the narrator takes the story cards, sorts them by number, and reads out the first card: “One fine day the three piggies left the farm where they lived”. The active player sees the currently wanted images for that story part on the back of the card – sun, three piggies and a farm, in this order – and turns up one tile in the grid. If the tile shows the needed image, he may turn up another tile, and so on. If he manages to reveal all images for the current story card in the correct sequence, he then repeats the part of the story that was read and is given the card. If he turns up a wrong image, the story card is set aside and the next card is read out for the next player.

When all the cards for the story have been read and less than ten cards have been won by players, you turn over the stack of set-aside cards and read them out again one by one. As soon as ten cards have been won by players, the game ends and the winner is the player with most victory points on his card.

For all four stories the rules list a variant for somewhat more experienced players, for instance a cooperative race hare versus tortoise with changed grid arrangement; when tiles are correctly revealed, the tortoise moves, or else the hare.

This is a cute game for families with smaller children, the stories are familiar ones and the memo mechanism has been nicely varied to engage audio and visual memory.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 20+

Designer: Toni Serradesanferm

Artist: Evelt Yanait

Price: ca. 35 Euro

Publisher: Viravi 2015

Web: www.viravi.es

Genre: Memorizing images and story parts

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: ca de en es

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Cute illustrations

Nice mechanisms

Trains audio and visual memory

Compares to:

Memo games with story background

Other editions:

Currently none

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Knowledge (yellow): 1

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 3

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