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Oh nein! Die Schnackelstein!

Moles on the hunt for gems

Countess Schnackelstein has buried jewels in the garden, hoping that they will grow into gem trees. Moles and worms must get rid of those obstacles for the World Worm Burrowing Championship. Gems are placed into the mole hills on the board and at each tunnel entry one mole is placed. At the start of your turn you choose any burrowing tile and slide it into a tunnel; in your first turn of the game you must use a beetle or worm tile, later you can choose any tile from stock, beetles, worms or your own joker tiles. If your tile makes a mole appear in a mole hill - it is sufficient if only part of a mole is visible - you may take all gems in this hill. Rubies you keep. Sapphires are given to other players and a diamond you keep, too, and also take all gems of one color from the tree stump. IF you make beetles appear, you must place one gem for each beetle onto the tree stump. If at least one worm is visible, you have another turn. If several things happen in a turn, the order of implementation is: sliding- taking gems - beetles - worms. When a mole reaches the end of a tunnel, he closes this tunnel. When all four tunnels are closed, you win with most gems.

In a version for younger children from ages 4 and up, all gems are equal, you may keep all gems that you reach and the tree stump is not in play.

After chickens, the worms are the topic of the second family of animal games from Zoch; “Oh nein! Die Schnackelstein” fits this range exceedingly well and is lots of fun. Paying close attention and assessing positions of worms and beetles in the tunnels makes the sliding challenging and somewhat tactical.

Players: 2-5

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Carmen Kleinert, Klaus Zoch

Artist: Heidemarie Rüttinger

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Zoch Verlag 2015

Web: www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre: Sliding, collecting

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Game family “Da ist der Wurm drin!”

Observation, memory and tactic allow optimum use of worms and avoiding of beetles

Cute topic, attractively and and challengingly implemented

Compares to:

„Da ist der Wurm drin!“, for topic also „Streifentoni“ and „Karolinchen“

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0