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Socken Zocken

Active Kids

Sock monsters are active again and muddle up the socks in the laundry baskets. Players impersonate those monsters and want to be first to put all their socks into the baskets. There are 20 socks in five colors, each sock features a specially shaped gaps. Socks are sorted by gap shape, and four baskets are distributed around the room. In the basket a colored sock is depicted. The closed game box is placed in the middle of the room.

Players take their socks in hand and stand next to a basket. On a signal of “Socken zocken” all run as fast as they can to another laundry basket and look at the color of the sock in it. Then you run to the basket of this color, but put one of your socks into the basket before running on. Your sock determines the target basket for the next player arriving. If sock and basket happen to have the same color, you can choose any basket for your next target basket; if you find a gray sock on top in the basket, you must run back to your  previous basket. If several players arrive at the same basket, they place their socks in the order of their arrival. If you are out of socks first and are first to place your hand on the game box in the middle of the room, you win.

In the Clothes Peg Variant, you put the clothes peg on one of the baskets and all players agree on an action; if you arrive at a basket you do the action and then put a sock into the basket; when you run on, you take the peg with you and put it on your target basket.

This is a nice addition to the range of Socken zocken games and a very good movement and agility games, that is also well suited to being played outside.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 10+

Designer: Treo Game Designers, Michael Schacht

Art: Martina Leykamm

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Haba 2017

Web: www.haba.de

Genre: Movement in a room, shedding

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Pretty components

Good for indoors and outdoors

Simple rules

Promotes agility

Compares to:

Socken zocken for topic, agility games

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