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Meeple Circus

Applause for successful performances

The acrobats wait for instructions for the next performance in three rounds; two rehearsals and one act; you win with most applause from all three rounds. Four cards for public demands and six component cards are displayed, as are performance tiles for the respective rounds and reserve components as accessories.

A round comprises preparation, presentation, evaluation and end. For a round, you take one component tile and a presentation tile for the current round. Then all players assemble their performance simultaneously within the run-time of the music from the app - which also serves as a timer - within their own ring, upright; each component touching the bottom of the ring must carry minimum one other component. The two player quickest to assemble their performance receive speed bonus tokens. In the evaluation phase, applause is awarded for public demands and acrobat meeples positions and colors - blue beginners, yellow standard and red expert meeples - as well as speed bonus tokens. In the end phase, a public demand card is exchanged, you keep your components, new component tiles and presentation tiles for the next round are laid out. In round II, guest stars are added, and in round III, acts are assembled by players in turn - some of them demand special App music - and evaluation criteria change - no speed bonuses and double the applause for guest stars.

Meeple Circus is a very nice version of the hazardous stacking game mechanism; the topic fits the mechanism and has been very well implemented; the difficulties in the presentations are cleverly varied, and guest stars range from tiger or camel to ringmaster or clown.

Players: 2-5

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Cédric Millet

Art: Sabrina Tobal, Angelina Costamagna, Mathieu Leysenne

Price: ca. 34 Euro

Publisher: Matagot 2017

Web: www.matagot.com

Genre: Dexterity, stacking

Users: For families

Version: en

Rules: en es fr kr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Topic well implemented

Nice components

Expansion Technical & Fun is available

Compares to:

Dexterity games featuring stacking

Other editions:

Gen-X Games (es), Mandoo Games (kr), Matagot (fr)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 2