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Vaca Loca

After-Party Turbulences

In Vaca Loca the aliens that we have already met in Mucca Pazza, once again on Earth, somewhat scrambled up, in the aftermath of a turbulent party; but this time a slight slap on their head can help to sort them out. Twenty aliens have ended up on Earth and therefore 20 heads, 20 bodies and 20 pairs of legs are on the table, face-down on 60 tiles.

In your turn you simply turn over a tile, in a way that all players can see it at the same time, and all players take a look at the body part and also at the rest of the display that is visible. If you believe that all three parts of an alien are already turned up and that he is thus completely visible, you slap the head tile of the alien with your hand, as quickly as you can. Whoever is the fastest and hits the correct head, takes all three tiles of this alien and sets them down, in correct order, for scoring at the end. If you make a mistake and either hit a head when some parts are still invisible, or if you slap another part of the alien, you must take a penalty planetary chip. When all aliens but three have been assembled, you score three points for each complete alien that you collected and must deduct one point for every planetary chip that you had to take. Whoever then has the highest score, wins the game. In case of the tie you win if with the lower number of planetary chips of those involved in the tie.

In any case a funny topic and very attractive drawings with nicely "alienated" animals. Patterns and colors are similar enough to force you to look closely, but with some attention absolutely distinctive. My favorite alien is the sheep in the frilly dress.

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 15+

Designer: Iris Rossbach

Artist: Iris Rossbach

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Zoch Verlag 2013

Web: www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre: Spotting and reaction game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Funny topic

Enchanting drawings

Quickly played with simple rules

Compares to:

All spotting games searching for image parts

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3