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Nacht der magischen Schatten

What magical being is missing?

The residents of the Magical Wood are celebrating in the Dark of the Night. And there is a game within this celebration - if you recognize the shadows and note who is not dancing around the fire, you may advance your own Magical Being.

First you assemble the shadow box - maybe with adult assistance. Each player chooses a Magical Being and places it at the start. Then you choose - depending on the number of players - 8 to 10 figures for the basic game and extract the corresponding cards from the pile. The active player is Dancer, he chooses seven characters and places them into the slots around the fire, while all other players close their eyes or turn around. Then all may open their eyes again, Dancer switches on the lamp and slowly turns the fire for one complete round until the mushrooms are back in starting position and switches off the lamp again. The other players must recognize characters from their shadows and memorize them and so find out which of the characters are missing. Then all choose characters from the card of which they believe that they did not dance, or pass.

If you did choose correctly you advance your Magical Being; Dancer moves his for each wrongly named or not spotted character. If you are first to move your Magical Being to the finish you win. Several versions for a fast game or a game using ace-down cards of the characters and memorizing those card positions, too, are listed.

Once again a fantastic game from Haba and by Kai Haferkamp with a fancy and inventive mechanism, a feast for all senses; you must observe, memorize, react fast - fun and challenge at the same time and a visual pleasure, too!

Players: 2-4

Age: 4+

Time: 20+

Designer: Kai Haferkamp

Art: Marc Robitzky

Price: ca. 29 Euro

Publisher: Haba 2012

Web: www.haba.de

Genre: Shadow game

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Exceedingly beautiful components

Fantastic mechanism

Mechanism and topic go very well together

Compares to:

Geisterschloss and others with recognition of shadows

Other editions:

Currently none

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