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CHicken’s worm hunt

The naughty worms are holding a worm party in the garden and Chicken Charly grabs the chance to go hunting for a few nice worms.

The worm garden is set up with four frames holding fabric elements with slit openings and the meadow board with eight worm holes. Then the worm holes are covered with color-coded mounds.

In turn, one player embodies Chicken Charly for the round, the other players are worms and hide underneath the mounds. For this, however, they do not use a pawn, but push - in turn or all at the same time, whatever works better - their hand through the slit, search for a free worm hole and then push a finder up into the mound to represent a worm. The Chicken Charly player rolls the die and and may then search the corresponding number of mounds for worms.

If he finds a worm, he receives a scoring tile in the color of the mound; if Chicken Charly has checked the appropriate number of mounds and did not find one or several worms, the worm player or players receive a corresponding scoring tile. For the joker mound, you can choose any tile. Whoever is first to collect six tiles of a color, wins.

In a variant, you win if you are first to collect any eight tiles or - for more experienced players - if you are first to collect six tiles of one color or three tiles in each of the colors.

What an enchanting version of a standard game idea - searching under covers is nothing new, but the fabric curtains and the use of player fingers for worms are a marvelous interpretation of the mechanism. Be quiet and cautions in the worm garden so that Chicken Charly does not find the worms too easily.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 20+

Designer: Inka and Markus Brand

Artist: Paletti-grafik

Price: ca. 27 Euro

Publisher: Queen Games 2017

Web: www.queen-games.de

Genre: Searching, dice

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Players use finger as game component

Interesting components overall

Simple basic mechanism

Fantastic game for children

Compares to:

First game with those components, otherwise search games

Other editions:

Currently none

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