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Floh am Po

Dice ticket for the Dogbus!

Fleas want to go on holiday to Italy and take the Dog Bus! A track is laid out between the start and the finish tile, using all or only some of the path tiles. Each player has a dog - Fido, Rover, Lucy or Duke - at the start tile and places one of the six colored fleas on it.

Then, in turn, you roll two dice: If you have on flea or both fleas of the resulting colors sitting on your dog, you relocated them to other dogs of your choice. When one or both fleas of the resulting colors are sitting on other dogs or still in the middle, you place them on your dog and then you advance your dog for as many steps as there are now fleas sitting on its back. The first dog to reach the finish tile, wins the game.

In a variant for older children you roll a number of dice that is determined by the position of your dog: You count the number of path tiles that are occupied by dogs, including the starting tiles, if there are still dogs on it, and then chick on which of those occupied path tiles your own dog is standing. If the dog is standing on the first occupied tile towards the finish tile, you roll only one tile; if it is standing on the second occupied field, you roll two dice, etc. Then you check fleas on your own dog for correlation with the dice result and then fleas on other dogs or fleas still in the middle.

What an enchanting game! The topic is perfect for children, funny and simple; the rules are equally simple and quickly explained; dogs and fleas are prettily designed and easily handled. You really cannot do better on a game for children, and the rules for older children are a bit more challenging, but interesting.

Players: 2-4

Age: 4+

Time: 15+

Designer: Peter Wichmann

Artist: Gabriela Silveira

Price: ca. 28 Euro

Publisher: Zoch Verlag 2017

Web: www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre: Race game

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Enchanting topic

Thrilling mechanism for range determination

Simplest rules

Nice variant for older children

Compares to:

Race games with dice

Other editions:

Currently none

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