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Bremer Stadtmusikanten

CAT IN YELLOW ON DOG in Yellow

In the range of games from „Die Spiegelburg“ there is a new line of card games. The series starts with four titles: Affenzirkus, Bremer Stadtmusikanten, Monster-Alarm und Rasend Schnell.

In Bremer Stadtmusikanten the animals must climb on each other’s back as they do in the fairy tale. The game is made up from cards showing the animals from the fairy tale, depicted either in a red, green, yellow or blue frame, always two animals in a frame of different color on a card, You place animals in the order of donkey – dog – cat on top of each other, always only animals in the same color frame. By the way, animals are depicted on a background of the same color as the frame, only the last animal in the stack, the cockerel, has a gray background with colored frames. You may also cover both halves of a card, if you have a card that fits both animals on the bottom card. If you place the cockerel, you draw a card and choose one of the animals on it. Then you hand to card to your neighbor; if he holds the animal you named he can add a card and hand both to his neighbor. If this player also holds the animal, he adds the card and hands them on etc. If you do not have the card named you must take all cards and then have a normal turn. When you place your last card but one you must announce this by making the noise of one of the animals on the card or draw a card. If you cannot place a card, you draw a card, too. If you can place all cards, you win the game.

Bremer Stadtmusikanten offers an enchanting variety of the domino mechanics, players learn to add cards in a non-linear way, and rarely topic and mechanism go together as beautifully as in this game.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 10+

Designer: Arno Steinwender, Wilfried Lepuschitz

Artist: Günther Jacobs

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Die Spiegelburg

Web: www.spiegelburg.de

Genre: Placement game

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Topic and mechanism go beautifully together * Nice variant of the domino mechanism * Stacking mechanisms trains non-linear placement

Compares to:

All versions of Domino

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 1