The little sorcerer's apprentices

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The little sorcerer's apprentices
Game data
author Thomas Daum ,
Violetta Leitner
graphic Rolf Vogt
publishing company Schmidt Games / Three Magician Games
Publishing year 2010
Art Board game
Teammates 2 to 4
Duration 20-25 minutes
Age from 5 years

Awards

The little sorcerer's apprentice is child's play by game designers Thomas Daum and Violetta Leitner . The game for two to four players, ages five and up, lasts around 20-25 minutes per round. It was published by Drei Magier Spiele in 2010 and was nominated for Children's Game of the Year in 2011 and was a finalist at Les Trois Lys in France .

Theme and equipment

The game is about a little dragon looking for sparkling gems in its cave. The game material consists of the game instructions

  • a playing field in the game box with 12 metal balls below the game board, on top
    • a three-part fireplace (3-part) and
    • four magic cauldrons,
  • four sorcerer's apprentices with magnet,
  • four magic wands to push the sorcerer's apprentices,
  • 16 magic potion ingredients in the form of balls (4 × red, 4 × green, 4 × yellow, 4 × blue) and
  • a fireball made of glass

Style of play

Before the start of the game, the playing field is set up, for this purpose the magic kettles on the corners of the playing field and the central fireplace are set up. The players choose a figure and also receive four ingredient balls each of different colors, which they place in their starting area, and a magic wand. The fireball is placed on the frame above the fireplace.

Beginning with a starting player, the other players each place a ball on their playing figure and push it from the starting field towards the corresponding color-coded cauldron in the corner of the playing field. You have to be careful that you do not come across the designated trip hazards at the fireplace and the other cauldrons, or the eight hidden traps in which your figure falls over and you lose the ball. In front of the matching fireplace you have to push your figure onto the trip hazard so that the ball falls into the cauldron, after which it is the next player's turn. If a player has already distributed all the ingredients, the other players may each transport up to two ingredients and deliver them to one of the possible cauldrons. Players who have placed their last ingredient in a cauldron may try to ignite the fire with the fireball in the following round. To do this, they have to put them on their pawns and fall over in the event of tripping hazards at the fireplace so that the ball lands in the fire.

Once a player has lit the fire, the game ends and the player wins.

Expenses and reception

The game The Little Sorcerer's Apprentice was developed by Thomas Daum and Violetta Leitner and published in 2010 as a multilingual version by Drei Magier Spiele , the children's play brand of the Schmidt Spiele publishing house , for the International Game Days in Essen (SPIEL '10). Like numerous other games from the publisher, Die kleine Zauberlehrlinge was illustrated by Rolf Vogt . It was nominated for Children's Game of the Year in 2011 and became a finalist at the French Les Trois Lys . The jury for Children's Game of the Year described the game as a "wonderfully equipped magnetic game that also requires a sure instinct" and justified their decision as follows:

“As soon as the three-dimensional game plan has been set up, a magical game atmosphere with a highly inviting character opens up. And if the figure stumbles as if by magic, the children are in for a great surprise, because only a look under the board reveals the cause. Once again, the publishing house Drei Magier Spiele has succeeded in an imaginative way in combining the magic of magnets with skill and memo elements in a child-friendly manner. "

After the first multilingual version of the game at Drei Magier Spiele, another version in Polish and another version in English, French and Spanish were released by Playroom Entertainment for the American market.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e game instructions The little sorcerer's apprentices
  2. ↑ a b The little sorcerer's apprentices on the website of the jury for children's game of the year ; accessed on May 20, 2017.
  3. ↑ Versions of Die kleine Zauberlehrlinge at BoardGameGeek; accessed on May 20, 2017.

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