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DoDeLiDo

two of the same are not the same

You shed cards from your hand and call out the term determined by the type and number of visible animals - animal, color, Nought or Dodelido - while also following rules for turtle and crocodile. Not very difficult, but lots of fun!

The game features 20 copies of five animals - Flamingo, Penguin, Turtle, Camel and Zebra -  plus five crocodiles. All cards are dealt evenly to all players who stack them in their hand, face-down. The active player put his top card quickly on the one of three stacks - you use them in clock-wise direction, one after the other - and quickly makes an announcement: In case of a correlation in one characteristic - type or color - and a majority, you call the characteristic. When both characteristics correlate, you call the one that is there more often; when there is a tie, for instance three yellow zebras, you call “Dodelido”. When there is no correlation or you place the first card of the round, you say “Nought!”. For each visible turtle your announcement begins with “Oh”, so, for two blue turtles, you say “Oh, Oh, Dodelido”.

The crocodile is a special case, it must be driven off quickly - all hit the card as fast as they can, the slowest player must take all cards in all stacks and a new round begins. If you make a mistake or hesitate longer than three seconds to make your announcement, you take all cards. Whoever is out of cards first, wins.

Jacques Zeimet and fun with animals on cards are already a synonym; here again we have hectic, cute and rather challenging game play; you need to be always alert for others’ mistakes and your correct answer - and do not forget the Ohs for the turtles!

Great family fun!

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 25+

Designer: Jacques Zeimet

Artist: Rolf Vogt

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Drei Magier / Schmidt Spiele 2016

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: Card shedding, reaction

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Typical Zeimet game

Time frame for the answer is hard to check

Otherwise a lovely family game with cute animal drawings

Compares to:

All reaction games by Jacques Zeimet, from Tarantel to Kakerlake

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 1