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Crazy Circus

Elephant on top of lion and polar bear

As an animal trainer in the circus you call orders to animals for their tricks. The game comprises three animals - lion, elephant and polar bear. There are position cards showing those animals in different tricks, e.g. the lion sits on the blue pedestal and carries the polar bear who in turn carries the elephant. Five command discs show syllables and indicate direction of movement with arrows: MA = up from the blue pedestal, NI = up from the red pedestal, both orders relate to the bottom animal in a stack. KI = from the red to the blue pedestal and LO = from the blue to the red pedestal, and the fifth order, SO for changing positions, all three of those orders are implemented by the top animal in a stack. The syllables must be named to implement the order.

Position cards are stacked face-down. The top position card is turned over and the animals are positioned accordingly. The order discs are put on display beneath the board, all players sit at the same side of the table. Then the next position card is turned over and each player thinks about the sequence of orders necessary to make the animals switch positions accordingly. If you call out a sequence you arrange the animals in this order; if you are correct, you get the position card; if you make a mistake the next player may name a sequence of orders. When all cards have been claimed, you win with most cards.

This is an unusual, interesting and challenging game, after a few rounds you are familiar with the orders and rearrange animals happily with, for instance, Ki-Ki-Ma. To succeed you need not only speed, but also spatial thinking.

Players: 1+

Age: 7+

Time: 20+

Designer: Dominique Ehrhard

Artist: Francois Bruel

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: Gameworks 2014

Web: www.gameworks.ch

Genre: Shunting

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition of Maniki, Jumbo, 2013

Simple rules

Some time necessary to familiarize yourself with the commands

Compares to:

Maniki and other shunting games

Other editions:

Currently none

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