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Under knee-high and next to something blue

Leopold the Ghost wants to give treasures to the new family in the castle and leaves hint on where the keys are hidden. One player in turn is the ghost and hides the key, the others search for it. The letter cards are sorted by color and stacked face-down. The ghost of the round turns up the top card of both stacks: The cards tell you what you must implement when hiding keys. The blue cards tell you the height in which to cache the key and the compass tells you the part of the room. The compass markings should be talked over before the game. The pink cards show if the key is hidden or the chest with the key, and which colored item the key or the chest must touch. When the ghost has hidden the key all but Leopold search for the key. When the ghost realizes that his cache is too difficult he can give hints like “warm” or “cold”. Who finds the key or chest receives a treasure. When Leopold makes a mistake the other players are given a letter card; depending on whether the treasure has been found or not all or all but the finder get one. When the correctly hidden treasure is not found it is hidden again. After five to eight rounds you win with the highest score from letters and treasures. In the advanced version the dice are rolled; only the player or players who grab the tiles fitting to the dice result are allowed to look at the letter card corresponding to the dice color.

This is a fast and challenging treasure hunt, which can get turbulent; you should not only talk about the compass cards in relation to the room, but also about eventual taboo areas in the room, especially when playing the advanced version.

Players: 3-6

Age: 5+

Time: 20+

Designer: Inka und Markus Brand

Art: Mark Robitzky

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: Haba 2012

Web: www.haba.de

Genre: Hide and seek game

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Good mixture of observation and search/find

Simple basic rules

Can get turbulent with more players

Partial visibility of the chest not always easily manageable

Compares to:

All games in which items are hidden in the room

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 2

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3