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FACE 2 FACE

LION WITH ELEPHANT EARS

Closing time at the zoo - visitors are leaving to go home and the animals go back into their cages or enclosures. But in this game they do not go there to go to sleep, but to change for the party. The animals love to dress up as other animals.

The game comprises 16 tiles showing the head of an animal, and 16 tiles with a hole and the contours of an animal’s head around this hole. Those tiles can be used for different games, in three of them you win with most pairs of cards.

Face 2 Face is a version of the classic memo mechanism for children ages 3+; you place all tiles with a hole into one grid and all tiles without a hole into another grid. Then you turn over two tiles and place them on top of each other, the one with a hole on top of the one without a hole. When the tiles correspond, you take the pair and may turn up two tiles again.

Toddlers of age 2+ can play Funny Faces; you just combine one tile with a hole with a tile without a hole.

First Face is a reaction game for children of ages 5+. All tiles with a hole are spread out open-faced; the tiles without a hole are stacked face-down. Then the top tile from the stack is turned over and all search simultaneously for the correct contour among the tiles with a hole. Whoever finds it first, receives the pair.

In Peek a boo for children of ages 6+ you stack 12 pairs in four stacks; in your turn you move a tile from one stack to another. If you make up a correct pair when doing this you take the pair.

Face 2 Face offers very pretty versions of standard game mechanism; the idea with the frame tile is nice and trains re-thinking and imagination.

Players: 2-4

Age: 3+

Time: 5+

Designer: Els Kok, Joke Visschedijk, Mathieu Gielen

Art: Gianpaolo Derossi, Hans-Georg Schneider

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: White Goblin Games 2012

Web: www.whitegoblingames.com

Genre: Memo and reaction game

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very pretty animal images, easily recognizable

Nice version of the memo mechanism

Several ways to play for different age groups

Compares to:

All memo and reaction games

Currently none

Other editions:

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 1

Action (dark green): 1