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Das kleine Gespenst

HIDE and Seek under the MANholes

The little ghost has fun in the canal system playing hide and seek. The policeman is supposed to find it and the players assist him. The two marbles represent the ghost. They are hidden in the canal system beneath the board, the canal system is represented by the dents in the game insert.

In your turn you choose a gully manhole and stick the plastic rod with the policeman on top through the gully manhole to check whether the ghost is hiding beneath this gully manhole. When nothing happens, the ghost has hidden himself well and the turn ends. But if the ghost comes up from the gully manhole and puffs the hat off the policeman’s head, you have found the ghost and receive a ghost chip for a reward.

The box is shaken again so that the ghost can hide again and the next player tries to find it. If you have collected five chips you win. The box is only shaken if you did find the ghost, if you did not find it all should try to remember under what gully manhole the ghost does NOT hide.

A very nice sequel to the “Children Game of the Year 2005” in Germany, the Take-me-along size of the box qualifies it as an ideal game for the road, it needs very little room to play and offers a lot of fun. The policeman is a very simple and very effective gimmick and after the first assembly children can play alone. The short concise rules confirm the talent of the designer for simple games with a high play-it-again appeal. The black-and-white design of the game is unusual and attractive, it goes with the book and automatically creates impressions of ghostly dark nights.

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 5 and up

Dauer           : ca. 15 min

Autor           : Kai Haferkamp

Grafik          : Fine Tuning

Vertrieb A.   : Kauffert

Preis            : ca. 7,00 Euro

Verlag          : Kosmos 2010

www.kosmos.de

Genre                    : Searching game

Zielgruppe             : For children

Mechanismen         : Check, remember result

Kommentar:

Sequel to the Children Game of the Year 2005

Handy Take-me-Along size

Simple mechanism

Can be played anywhere

Vergleichbar:

Das kleine Gespenst and other searching games with a memo mechanism

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