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Hoppa Galoppa

Jumping obstacles with dice roll

Four ponies in their pasture are real tomboys and best friends at the same time, and most of all they like to race each other and to overcome different obstacles in those races.

12 obstacle cards are randomly shuffled and laid out to form a race track, with about a pony length of distance between two cards. Each player takes a pony and puts it at the start of the track. You roll all four color dice. If one of the dice fits the color of the first obstacle in front of the pony, you can jump over this obstacle and keep jumping over more obstacles while there is a color die corresponding to the next obstacle in front of the pony. So you can jump over a maximum of four obstacles in your turn, you cannot use a dice twice. When no color corresponds to an obstacle the pony remains where it is, but you take the obstacle behind the pony (if there is already such an obstacle) and put it at the end of the track, so that the race track is elongated. If you are first to jump over the last obstacle in the track with your pony, you win the race today.

If you like you can play the variant that you take away the obstacle in front of the pone to expand the race track when you have to remain in the same position with your pony.

As one is used to from Haba, this little game, too, convinces by most simple mechanisms, pretty illustrations corresponding to the target group, and very pretty components; the ponies all come in colors that could be the colors of real ponies in a pasture. The game trains simple color recognition and assignment and a bit of hand-eye coordination in picking up and replacing obstacle cards.

Players: 2-4

Age: 4+

Time: 10+

Designer: Heinz Meister

Art: Iris Rossbach

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Haba 2012

Web: www.haba.de

Genre: Race game with dice

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Exceedingly simple rules

Beautiful, functional components

Trains color recognition and hand-eye coordination

Compares to:

All dice game with a color dice

Other editions:

Currently none

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