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Flick Fleck

Cows want their spots!

Cows on pasture wake up one morning, totally bare of of spots, they want them back! Cows on the front side and the back side of four cow boards have varying faces and hair-dos, but all cow bodies show the same grid of 5x4 slots. 120 spot tiles are either white, black or black & white in varying patterns, but always show only one color along each of the edges, and are spread out face-down.

You have a cow and take - on a signal of „How, wow, cow, now!“ - a face-down spot tile and place it anywhere on your cow, meeting only one placement requirement: never place white next to black. If you cannot place your tile, you set it aside and pass this turn, you cannot draw a replacement tile. If you are first to give your cow new spots allover, you win.

As a variant, you can play cow puzzle - each player again takes a cow board, but the spot tiles are spread out pattern side up and every player always takes the tile he currently needs to complete one of the puzzle tasks: How many separate spots can you give your cow, or how big is the biggest spot that you manage to arrange; how does the cow look if given stripes and what happens if you turn around the placement rule to the opposite rule: black must be placed only next to white?

Flick Fleck is a basically very simple area filling game, somewhat challenging four four-year old kids, but manageable all the same. The chance  element is high, but the tile stock is big enough to provide useful tiles, albeit not in every turn in the core game. The puzzle variants listed provide a good introduction to the game mechanics and the placement rule.

Players: 1-4

Age:4+

Time:15+

Designer: Michael Kallauch

Artist: Lena Hesse

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Zoch Verlag 2018

Web: www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre: Tile placement

Users: For children

Special: 1 player

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice topic

Not easy, but feasible for four-year old kids

Simple basic rule

Compares to:

Tile placement with pattern restrictions

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 0