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Pass the finish without cheese

A well-known series of comics, originally intended for adults by the author, is the basis for this game with elements of creativity and communications.

You choose a marker, the oldest player gets the Smelly Cheese. You move from start to finish and complete different objectives on the way; the active player always moves forward at completion of a task, sometimes the other players move, too.

The color of the spot on which your marker starts the turn determines the objective: “Who says what” – you draw the top card from this stack and read it out, all others note down an answer; these are collected by another player and read out one by one, you must guess who answered how; for each correct guess you advance one step, if you get al guesses wrong you take the cheese. “Yes or no?” works identically, but you do not write down the answer, the active player must guess every answer correctly, or take the cheese. “Two daft heads – one thought” – you must  achieve correlation with the answer of one other player, or else cheese! “Make it so” – the active player gives a task to another player, which this player must implement according to the adjective on a card that this player then draws; the active player must guess the adjective. Event spots are simply implemented by the active player. If you reach the finish first you win provided you do not hold the smelly cheese.

Well-known standard mechanisms result in a nice mix together with the comics topic, which is a nice family game due to the rather simple objectives, because the better you know each other the better the game will work.

Players: 3-6

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Jeff Kinney

Artist: Jeff Kinney, Mirko Suzuki

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2011

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Creative communication game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Game based on Jeff Kinney’s comics

Standard mechanisms

Nice mix of objectives

Compares to:

Other movement games with completing objectives and assessing fellow players

Other editions:

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cheese Touch, Pressman Toy Corp.

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 2

Knowledge (yellow): 1

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0