The Knights of the Hazelnut

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The Knights of the Hazelnut
Game data
author Klaus Teuber
graphic Gabriela Silveira
publishing company Goldsieber Spiele ,
999 Games , Asmodée Editions u. a.
Publishing year 1996
Art Board game, children's game
Teammates 3-4
Duration 30 minutes
Age from age 6

Awards

The Knight of the Hazelnut is a children's board game for two to four players by Klaus Teuber . It was first published in 1996 by the French publisher Asmodée Editions and in the following year in a German version by Goldsieber Spiele . In the game , the other players take on the role of squirrels , who have to collect and hide as many nuts as possible.

In 1997, Die Ritter von der Hazelnut was awarded the German Children's Games Prize .

Theme and equipment

The game is a board game in which the players in the role of squirrels have to collect as many nuts as possible and bring them into their hiding spots. The winner is the player who first reached the target space on the scoring track.

In addition to the instructions, the game material consists of:

  • a game board with a squirrel path, eight hazelnut bushes, two hiding spots and a scoring track,
  • four pawns (squirrel knight),
  • four counting stones,
  • a cube and
  • 56 playing cards, including 32 hazelnut cards and 24 robber cards.

Style of play

At the beginning of the game, the game board is placed in the middle of the table. The cards are shuffled and dealt face down on the hazelnut bushes so that there are seven cards on each bush. The players each choose a color and get the corresponding pawn, which they place on any field on the pawn. The scoring stones are placed on the starting space of the scoring track.

Starting with a starting player, the players roll the dice and move their figure according to the result on footprints on the playing field. You can move in any direction and you can have more than one figure on one space. Then the player draws a card from the bush where he stopped and is allowed to look at it. If it is a card with a hazelnut, he may keep it and place it face up in front of him. However, if it is a card with one of the three robbers (Leo Luchs, Max Marder and Fritz Fuchs), he puts it back and tries to remember it.

If, on a later turn, another player comes across a bush with a robber on the stack of cards that another player already knows, he or she may say the name out loud. If the name is correct, the caller gets two points on the scoring track. The other player loses all hazelnuts in front of him that are taken from the game. If the caller has given the wrong name, he must move his scoring marker back two spaces on the scoring track. In both cases, the robber card is removed from play.

Instead of moving to a hazelnut bush, a player can also move to a hazelnut hideout if he can reach it directly. Here he may give up the hazelnuts in front of him and move forward accordingly on the scoring track. The number of steps results from the number of nuts, he takes one step for one nut, three for two nuts, six for three nuts and ten steps for four nuts. A player may not hide more than four nuts at once.

The game ends either when a player has reached the last field of the scoring track with his scoring marker, or when there are no more cards on two hazelnut bushes after a turn. In both cases, the player with the most points on the scoring track wins.

Development and reception

The game Die Ritter von der Hazelnut was developed by Klaus Teuber and was published in 1996 by Asmodée Editions in a French version as Les chevaliers de la Noisette and in a German version in the following year by Goldsieber Spiele . Further editions of the game appeared in 1997 in Dutch by 999 Games and in Slovenian by Laser plus. In 2007, a multilingual version in the northern European languages ​​Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian was published by Lautapelit.fi.

In 1997, Die Ritter von der Hazelnut was awarded the German Children's Games Prize .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Instructions for use The Knights of the Hazelnut , German-language edition 1997 (2nd edition after receiving the German Children's Games Prize)
  2. ↑ Versions of The Knights of the Hazelnut in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English); accessed on December 27, 2017.

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