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Gack, Gack!

Explosion in the Hen Coop

The hen is clacking already if you press its chest while it is still in its box, but before you can begin to play, you must assemble the hen coop and place the egg tiles into it, which were previously made ready with stickers. T Then the hen is put into the nest and the coop is clicked shut. Now you can begin to play, answering the permanent question of „will the hen lay an egg?“

The active player rolls the die and presses the chest of the hen as often as the die shows pips. The hen cackles for each pressing. If nothing else happens and you are done with the number of your pressures, the turn passes to the next player. But when the coop explodes when you press the hen’s chest, the hen cackles and lays an egg. The egg rolls out of the coop and - depending on how it falls - it is already open or must be “cracked”. The tile in the egg determines the outcome: You drop it on the table - if it lands showing a fried egg, you were unlucky, your turn ends and passes to the next player. If, however, the tile lands chicken side up, you receive a chicken tile from the coop. When all chicken tiles have been handed out, you win with most of them.

Well, there were a few „other“ games for children and families in the last few years, but there are still those games of plastic with action. Gack, Gack! Is a typical representative of that genre - it works well, assembly is easy, and the coop is easily dismantled for restorage. The fun in playing is huge, at least for the first few games - then it tends to get a bit monotonous, especially due to the clacking of the hen, with soon becomes irritating rather than funny.

Players: 2-4

Age: 4+

Time: 10+

Designer: not named

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 22 Euro

Publisher: Mattel 2017

Web: mattel.com

Genre: Dice

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Only chance-driven

Well-working components

Cackling noise can irritate

Compares to:

Action game with dice

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 1