It is not just a board game, the packaging consist of a comics and it reaches beyond the classical board games - it is a helping hand for people in Africa. They make each and every one of the Kiumbi characters, which are in the game. The game itself is mainly focused on children as it the whole design. It contains five characters, that are amazingly...
The players are hunting the evil robot Gobbot (played by another player) with four mini submarines within the human body. Goal is to catch the robot while spending as little energy as possible. Rules suggest that each players gets to play as the robot once, and then the scores are added. Each turn, the players first choose an action card. There are cards...
One in a series of children's games featuring the character "The Little Prince". In this game the players have to capture or tame the fox, which they do by making their way down a path based on their ability to predict which of four 'locations' the fox will appear. One player acts as the fox and receives 12 cards comprising three each of four different...
[Translated and condensed from the Spiel des Jahres website, http://www.spiel-des-jahres.com/cms/front_content.php?idcatart=879&id=606] Eric Carles' Very Hungry Caterpillar has an enormous appetite. Very close to the original book, the children embark on an adventure to change into a butterfly. On Monday it begins its journey. Before the caterpillar...
A panel with butterfly is covered with a frame in which there is a 10-piece puzzle for the cocoon. The figure of the little caterpillar starts on the sun field of the run around the cocoon puzzle. You roll the dice and move to the corresponding fruit; if there is a leaf there or you rolled a leaf, you take one. If the second die shows the cocoon, you may...
The players have to get their pawn from space 1 to space 300. Movement is determined by a spinner. The spinner indicates two numbers, wich are added to determine the number of spaces, the pawn has to move forward. If a pawn gets on a space with a picture and an arithmetical task (based on the number of the space), the meeple has to be moved forwards or...
Roll and move game. The players start in "Bärenfried" and travel to "Bärenhausen". They start with train, car, motorcycle, horse, bike or on foot. At certain points they get on change zones, where they change their method of travel according to the result of the die. According to their method of travel they have to pass fewer or more spaces to reach the...
Each player gets an bank account and pocket money. There is also a joint account. Each player has to get from space 1 to space 120 (Raiffeisen symbol). Movement is determined by a die. On some spaces events benefit or hinder the players, mostly by gaining or losing money. The first player to reach space 120 gets half of the joint account, the next one half...
User summary: The players choose a profession (office worker, laborer, physician, farmer, craftsman, trader) and may take the roles of mayor, cashier, city manager, journalist. The pawns are moved around the board clockwise. Movement is determined by a die. Some spaces or event cards make the players earn or lose money. Money is needed to gain achievement...