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Cumulo

WHO FINDS THE OPEN 8 first?

Shapes formed by clouds in the sky after a thunderstorm are the topic of the game; players should recognize shapes and find them.

The components of the game feature three symbols for different levels of difficulty; a sun for easy ones, a rainbow for medium ones and thunderstorm symbols for the hard tasks. In each category there are 8 wooden tiles and 8 cardboard tiles with images. The wooden tiles are laid out open-faced, the cardboard tiles are shuffled and stacked face-down. The active player draws a tile from the stack, places it in the holder and forms the shape depicted on the tile with the chain; there is no pre-set or necessary orientation of the shape. The other players now look for that shape among the wooden tiles. If you are the first to spot it you receive the wooden tile. If you choose the wrong tile you cannot guess again in the current round. The cardboard tile is shown for checking and then discarded. Depending on the version chosen you win either if you collected the most tiles or are the first to own 3, 4 or 5 tiles or have collected one sun, one rainbow and one thunderstorm symbol corresponding to the three levels. If you want to play a somewhat more demanding version you can hand over the cardboard tile for a correct guess and leave all wooden tiles in play, so that the correct image is more difficult to find.

Cumulo offers a wonderful game with many more ways to play it or use it, you can form any shapes in free play or draw the images on the back of your fellow players or … a fantastic training for recognizing shapes and motor skills as well as for imagination.

Players: 3-6

Age: 4+

Time: 15+

Designer: Kirsten Hiese

Artist: Nadine Bougie

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Beleduc 2011

Web: www.beleduc.de

Genre: Lege- und Suchspiel

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: ch de en fr it es nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very beautiful components

Well-chosen shapes

Many ways to play

Compares to:

McChain and other games with imitating shapes

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 2