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Mucca Pazza

Sorting COWpiteranians

Inmates from planet Cowpiter want to visit Earth – unfortunately crazy cow Mucca Pazza has pressed the Salto Mortale button for teleportation and now the bodies of all visitors have been thoroughly mixed up.

Depending on the age level you play with five or ten animals. In case of playing with ten animals you place all heads into the first row of the board; the second row is randomly filled with all bodies, and the third row, again in as random a selection as possible, with the legs of all animals. At the start no two parts can fit together. Then you turn up ten out of thirty stacked animal tiles and put them on the landing stage of the board; identical animals are d staggered. In your turn you try to assemble an animal on the landing stage. You use the outmost left or right tile in a row to slide all tiles in the row until the opposite tile falls out. This tile is put into the empty place at opposite side. You can slide the same row several time, or different rows each time, but only up to a maximum of three slide moves per turn. Should you discard one of three wooden stars that you received at the start, you can do one additional slide per star. When one or more complete animals are on the board at the end of your turn you take the corresponding tiles off the landing stage and replace them with new tiles. When the last animal tile has been placed on the landing stage each player has one more turn and you win with most animals.

Enchanting graphics, simple rules, cute animals and a bit of planning, which animal could be completed with three sliding moves – fantastic training for spatial perception and a lot of fun!

Players: 2-4

Age: 4/6+

Time: 15+

Designer: Iris Rossbach

Artist: Iris Rossbach

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Zoch Verlag 2013

Web: www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre: Sliding, planning

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very simple mechanism

Planning is necessary

Trains spatial thinking

Pretty illustrations

Version for 4 year olds

Compares to:

Das verrückte Labyrinth and other sliding games

Other editions:

Currently none

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