Presentation

Circo Delfino

Playful performances

Dolphins are known for their playfulness; Circo Delfino shows them in the guise of juggling dance artists. They arrange themselves into formations of dolphins comprising three colors and ascending quantities; the number of cards used for such a formation is irrelevant. Dolphin cards come in red, blue, green, yellow and purple. A formation comprises x dolphins of color 1, x+1 dolphins of color 2 and x+2 dolphins of color 3, so, for instance 2 yellow, three red and four blue dolphins. A Joker Dolphin shows all four colors and can replace any dolphin. For a valid formation, all dolphins on the involved cards must be part of the it, there can be now surplus dolphin.

61 dolphin cards are shuffled and stacked face down, they show one, two or three dolphins in varying colors, one card is displayed openly. The active player draws a card from the stack and adds it openly to the display of all visible cards. If you spot a group formation, you call “got it!” and point out the respective cards; if you are correct, you take the cards; if not, you discard a card; when the stack is empty, you win with most cards. In the version Super Mix, you add five Super Mix cards to the stack before shuffling; those cards each show four dolphins in four colors, each card is missing one color. You can now mix color to achieve a group formation - combine a blue and red dolphin to represent a purple one, or a yellow and a green dolphin to represent a green one.

This is a challenging reaction and observation game and good practice for assessing quantities; the Super Mix version is a special challenge! Both versions of the game make good family games, too!

Players: 2-6

Age: 6+

Time: 25+

Designer: Carmit Benbenishty

Artist: Mia Carlo

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2017

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: Set collection, reaction 

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: cz de en fr hu it pl sk

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice topic

Trains quick quantity assessment

Super Mix with mixed colors is very challenging

Compares to:

SET and other set collection games with color and quantity parameters

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): 3

Action (dark green): 0