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Flinker Willi

A like Ant, Apple or Accountant

Flinker Willi is made up from 13 wooden disks of different height and a funny hat including a clown’s hat. 21 letter chips are randomly laid out, showing the letter side - if you deem it necessary you can remove more difficult letters like X, Y, Z or Q from the game before you start. Flinker Willi is placed on a randomly chosen letter and the game can begin.

The active player turns over the chip next to Flinker Willi in clockwise direction to show the category: Profession, color, hobby or leisure time activity, male first name, female first name, clothing, town, foodstuff or animal. Then you roll the die and all players in their mind count that many chips, starting at the chip next to Flinker Willi in counter-clockwise direction. When you have determined the correct letter you try to find a word fitting the category and starting with the correct letter. When you think that you have found a correct word you grab for Flinker Willi. But take care that he keeps his head - if he loses it the round ends immediately. If he keeps his head you can name your word and all players decide together if it fits the letter and the category. When all is correct you can take a wooden disc of your choice off Willi. The topic chip is turned back to the letter side and Willi is placed on the letter that was used just now. If you are first to collect four wooden discs, you win.

A new way of category selection, having Flinker Willi running along the letters and providing a reaction mechanism, well combined with vocabulary and knowledge and nicely chosen categories! Take care, with every disc he loses Willi gets a bit more wobbly.

Players: 2-4

Age: 7+

Time: 15+

Designer: Heinz Meister

Art: Oliver Freudenreich

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2012

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Word and association game

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Willi offers a nice mechanism of selection and reward

Good topics, fitting the age group

Variable difficulty due do preselecting letters

Compares to:

All game with associations on letters and terms

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 0