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Putz die Wutz

Pigs with colorful jam spots

Pigs, which in this game are called Wutz(en), have gotten into the jam store and are therefore dirty with jam spots in four colors and need to be cleaned.

Twelve of the Wutzen are laid out from the face-down stack into a square around the jam glass marker. Attention! Each Wutz must - in clock-wise direction - look at the next Wutz. Then you face one side of the square, place a piece of soap in front of it and now have a line of Wutzen to your right looking at you. One player rolls the black color die, the pink spot die and a special die, determining spot color, number of spots and modifying the number of spots by +1 or -1. Take care! 1 -1 results in 6 spots and 6+1 in 1 spot to find. Then all play simultaneously: all search for the correct Wutz - whoever finds it takes - no, not the Wutz, but the piece of soap at which the Wutz is looking. When the correct Wutz is missing, you search for the one with red spots of the same number. If this is missing, too, you grab the jam glass. If you did right, you are Wutzenputzer of the round and get the Wutz, if it looks at you; if not, you rotate it to look at you. If you correctly hold the jam glass, you rotate any Wutz to you. For a mistake you pass your turn next round. When the stack is empty, you win with most Wutzen.

Despite jam not sweet, but cute and chaotic, you need to spot, calculate, check direction and grab correctly; the search-a-result mechanism has been nicely varied, and for younger players there are variants without the special die or with a smaller square. A bit of gloating when the Wutz doesn’t look at someone and lots of laughter are guaranteed.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Thierry Chapeau

Artist: Gabriela Silveira

Price: ca. 18 Euro

Publisher: Zoch Verlag 2014

Web: www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre: Reaction

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it + nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Standard mechanisms

Fun is in the details

Lots of chaos due to taking into account four parameters

Compares to:

Geistesblitz and all games with react on results by taking something.

Other editions:

999 Games, The Netherlands

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 2