OUR REVIEW

Flossen hoch!

Folk Festival at the south pole!

The inmates of the Southern Seas dance, dive and romp, but highlight of the festival is the fish race of the penguins, in which they try to pull the longest colorful fish out of the water.

Eac player is given a penguin and all fish of the same color and puts them into the slits of the Polar Sea in the middle of the board. When this is done fishbones and the rainbow fish are placed.

Then you roll the die in turn: When the result is a color then you are looking for a fish of this color; beginning with the active player each player tries to pull a fish of this color out of the sea. Should the result of the roll be a fish each player tries to find either the rainbow fish or a fish of his own color. When the shark fin is rolled, you cry “Shark alert” and all players can fish at the same time and try to pull a fish as long as possible out of the waves.

When all have taken a fish they are scored: If you got a fish of the correct color or the rainbow fish you may move your penguin: Your fish is placed with its tail end next to your penguin and then you place the penguin into the slit next to the head of the fish. When his slit is taken you put the penguin into the nearest free one. If you encounter an ice flow you jump over it. In case of Shark alert all players may move their penguin, unless they caught fishbones. Then all players put back the fish into any slit. If you are first to cross the finish line you win.

What a way to use memo mechanisms! A fantastic implementation of a standard game principle! Topic and implementation go together hand in glove and the way to determine how far the penguin moves is a super idea!

Players: 2-4

Age: 4+

Time: 10+

Designer: Edith Grein-Böttcher

Art: Claudia Stöckl

Price: ca. 23 Euro

Publisher: Zoch Verlag 2012

Web: www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre: Memo game

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Ideal combination of topic and mechanism

Enchanting components

Fantastic mechanism to move the penguins

Toller Mechanismus zur Pinguin-Bewegung

Compares to:

Vorsicht Flamingo, Der Maulwurf und sein Versteckspiel and other games with part of the pawns hidden beneath the board

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0