The mysterious magic lake

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The mysterious magic lake
Game data
author Stefan Kloß , Anna Oppolzer
graphic Rolf Vogt
publishing company Schmidt Games / Three Magician Games
Publishing year 2018
Art Board game
Teammates 2 to 5
Duration 15 minutes
Age from 5 years

Awards
  • Graf Ludo 2018 :: nominated for best children's game graphics

The mysterious magic lake is a cooperative children's game by game designers Stefan Kloß and Anna Oppolzer . The game for two to five players, ages five and up, takes about 15 minutes per round. It was published by Schmidt Spiele in 2018 under the brand Drei Magier Spiele and in the same year was nominated for the Graf Ludo German game graphics award for the best children's game graphics of the year.

Theme and equipment

The game is about a group of young magicians who flee together on their flight from the magician Rabenhorst from Rabenfels Castle over a water lily lake and are magically withdrawn again and again. The other players must uncover suitable animal tiles from a hidden display for their escape and are allowed to move forward with their help. However, magnetic fields under the game board can hold them in place and move them back again.

The game material consists of the game instructions

  • a playing field with three-dimensional elements in the game box and eight water strips with magnets below the game board,
  • four figures for the young magicians (including cat),
  • a pawn for the magician Rabenhorst,
  • 16 tiles, including 12 animals and 4 raven eyrie

Style of play

Before the start of the game, the playing field is set up, for this the game board is placed on the game box and the castle part with the raven and the reeds are attached. The water strips are shuffled and pushed under the playing field. Rabenhorst is placed on the corresponding starting space in the castle and the four playing figures for the young magicians are placed on the bank of the lake. The tiles with the magical animals and raven's nest are shuffled and placed face down next to the playing field.

The players have to try to pull all four pieces together across the lake to the boardwalk. The players take turns playing clockwise, starting with a starting player. At the beginning of his turn, the active player turns over a tile that can either show an animal or the magician Rabenhorst. If he has uncovered a magical animal, he may move one of the pawns horizontally or vertically over the water lily fields without jumping over another pawn. If the figure is held magnetically on a lily pad during the move, the move ends (except in the start area); if the sheet is one on which the previously revealed animal is located, the spell is released and the figure can move on. If a figure is standing on a magnetic field at the beginning, it may only be freed and drawn with the appropriate animal token.

If the player has turned the magician Rabenhorst over, he may not move. Instead, he takes out the last strip of water that can be seen under the edge of the lake and pushes it back under the lake on the boardwalk. With the magnets, which he moves with the strips, the young magicians can now either get into a magnetic field or be pushed back, and the magician Rabenhorst can also pull a step forward. If all magicians are held at the beginning of the turn and the active player does not reveal a suitable animal, he cannot make a move and a water strip is also pushed up.

After the move, the player turns the tile over again without changing its position, and it is the next player's turn. The game ends

  • if the magician Rabenhorst reaches his target space, in that case the players have lost.
  • if all magicians are on the boardwalk, then the players win.

Expenses and reception

The game The mysterious Zaubersee was developed by Stefan Kloß and Anna Oppolzer and published as a multilingual version for the Nuremberg Toy Fair in 2018 by Drei Magier Spiele , the children's play brand from Schmidt Spiele . Like numerous other games from the publisher, The Mysterious Magic Lake was illustrated by Rolf Vogt . In the same year it was nominated for the Graf Ludo German game graphics award for the best children's game graphics of the year.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e game instructions The mysterious magic lake
  2. ↑ Versions of The Mysterious Magic Lake at BoardGameGeek; accessed on August 18, 2018.
  3. ↑ GRAF LUDO 2018 - The selection list on the website of the fair model-hobby-game; accessed on August 18, 2018.

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