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Mimikri

Chameleon to butterfly

Butterflies with scintillating patterns on their wings are the beautiful topic of this spotting game. 20 butterfly cards show different butterflies, five image cards show different animals. The butterfly cards are laid out in a grid face-down. A folding box with a mirror is standing in for a camera. You place an image card into the camera: A butterfly appears, one half on the bottom area of the box, half in the mirror. Should you turn the image card by 90 degrees before inserting it into the camera, a different butterfly would appear.

All players now search for the butterfly in the camera: You turn up a card in the display; if you did not find the correct butterfly the wrong butterfly remains open-faced and the turn passes to the next player. If you find the correct butterfly you take the card from the display and lay it out open-faced; then you turn over all open cards and hand the camera to the next player. When all image cards have been used, the game gets more difficult: You shuffle the image cards and when inserting a card you are not allowed to create a butterfly that was already found and is visible in front of one of the players. If you cannot manage this you hand on camera and image card to the next player. When all butterflies have been found you win with most butterflies.

A fascinating and beautiful game with an enticing use of mirror mechanics; the transformation of the image cards into the different butterflies challenges spatial and optical imagination, in time a learning process occurs which side of the image cards results in which butterfly.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Brigitte Pokornig

Art: Lena Hesse

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Zoch Verlag 2012

Web: www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre: Spotting and memo

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Sensational graphics

Sophisticated use of the mirror concept

Challenge for spatial thinking

Compares to:

First game of this kind

Other editions:

Currently none

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