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Bellz

Collect colorful bells

A pretty colorful pouch opens to form a game board shaped like a circle, made from soft cloth. On this board you spread 40 Bellz in four colors, there are 20 small, 12 medium and 8 big bells. Each player selects one color and tries to be the first player to collect all ten bells of his color.

The active player takes the magnetic stick and decides if he wants to use the thick end of the stick with a strong magnet or the thin end of the stick with a weak magnet, and then collects bells of his color with the selected end. The collected bells can adhere to the stick or hang on other bells. Within a turn you cannot change the end of the stick. You may go on collecting until you either collect another player’s color or when bells fall off the stick.

In both cases you must put back all bells that you collected in this turn back onto the the game board and your turn ends.

If, on the other hand, you are happy with the number of bells you managed to pick up so far in your current turn, you can voluntarily end your turn. In this case you take the bells off the stick and set them aside outside the playing area. If you thus are first to have collected all ten bells of your color, you win.

Bellz is a visual pleasure, a game that is pleasant to look at and pleasant to handle, very beautiful and attractive, for the whole family. The idea, the rules and the mechanism are all very simple, and yet it is a challenge to collect your own bells and find the right mix of risk and caution to make sure that the turn does not end without any bells. Due to the pouch function of the game board the game is also ideally suited for holiday and travelling.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 15+

Designer: Don Reid

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 17 Euro

Publisher: Game Factory 2015

Web: www.gamefactory-spiele.de

Genre: collecting, magnetism

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de fr it + en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Attractive, simple game

Good mix of caution and risk

Ideal game for holidays

Compares to:

Other magnetic collecting games

Other editions:

Wiggles 3D, dV Giochi

Chance (pink): 0

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): 3