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Kikeribumm

like chicken roosting

Chickens aren’t sitting on their roost in the hen coop, but on bales of hay and wagon wheels, which in turn sit on a platform. Players are tasked with collecting as many chickens, hay bales and wagon wheels as possible without toppling the roost.

At the start of the game you place the platform on the table and arrange three big and three small chickens, seven discs representing hay bales and sever bigger disks representing wagon wheels at your discretion on the platform; the rules give an example.

Then the first feat of balance begins: The platform with all components on it must be balanced on the pedestal. When this has been achieved, players alternate their turns: You take a piece off the platform; there are no rules for this removal, you take what you think that you can take it without toppling the platform. If you notice the beginning of toppling when you lift a piece, you are allowed to put it back and decide to take another piece off.

When all pieces have been taken off the platform or if the platform topples, you score the pieces that you collected: A big chicken is worth three points, a small one gives you two points; for each hay bale you score three points and for each wagon wheel one point. IF you caused the plat form to topple, you must deduct five points from your score. In a version you do not score points at the end, the winner is whoever takes the last piece before the platform topples.

A beautiful game and a very good game; the pieces are very attractive and easy to handle by small hands; the rules are very easy, and assessment of size and weight is practiced on the go.

Players: 2-4

Age: 4+

Time: 10+

Designer: Thierry Denoual

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 24 Euro

Publisher: Blue Orange / Asmodee 2017

Web: www.asmodee.de

Genre: Balance

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de en es

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very attractive, beautiful components

Easy rules

Good practice for assessing size and weight

Compares to:

Billy Biber and other balance games

Other editions:

Blue Orange EU (de es), Blue Orange Games (en)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3