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Gregs Tagebuch

Eiermatsch

This time with Greg it’s a Rupert Egg that nobody wants to hold when it breaks, going crack instead of a steady tok-tok-tok. The starting player turns up the first of a total of 40 topic cards and reads out the topic. Then he switches on the Rupert Egg and names a word corresponding to the current topic. Then he quickly passes on the egg to another player, who in turn names a correct word corresponding to the topic, and so on. IF you hold the egg when it goes “crack” has lost the current round, takes the topic card and is the next starting player. Whoever names a word for the second time, must hold the egg until he can think of a correct new word or the egg goes crack. When you have collected three cards you must quit the game, the last one in play wins.

And if you now think that you have seen this before, you are of course correct: Gregs Eiermatsch uses the mechanisms well-known from games like Tick Tack Bumm and Buzz-it! New in Gregs Eiermatsch is just the context of the questions to the books by the author - yes, he designed the game and wrote the books; they all relate to a teenager’s world and picture this world quite successfully from a teenager’s point of view. The run-time of the Rupert Egg Timer is very short and so the game plays quickly and you can easily play a return match. If you do not own one of the predecessors mentioned you can acquire a classic game principle with Gregs Eiermatsch; the selection of terms is well-done and attractive and adults, too, can come up with correct and fitting answers, the topic is a tag and nicely implemented in the drawings, but not really dominant.

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Jeff Kinney

Art: Jeff Kinney

Price: ca. 23 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2012

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Vocabulary game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Topic nicely implemented in the drawings

Well-chosen selection of words

Fun using standard mechanisms

Compares to:

Tick Tack Bumm, Buzz-it

Other editions:

Pressman Toys, USA

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 2

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0