Fabulantica

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Fabulantica
Game data
author Marco Teubner
graphic Gediminas Akelaitis (Lithuanian edition),
Anne Pätzke (German edition)
publishing company LOGIS ,
Pegasus Games
Publishing year 2017, 2019
Art Child's play
Teammates 2 to 5
Duration 25 minutes
Age from 7 years

Awards

Fabulantica is a children's game by the German game designer Marco Teubner , which was published by LOGIS and Pegasus Spiele in 2018 . In May 2019, Fabulantica was launched alongside Go Gecko Go! and Valley of the Vikings nominated for Children's Game of the Year .

Theme and equipment

In Fabulantica is a children's game in which the players try to fulfill search requests for hidden people. Thematically, the game is set in a fairy tale world in which a sorcerer's apprentice spreads the inhabitants across the entire kingdom through a spell mistake. These are now looking for other residents, with the players helping them. The player who was able to complete three searches first wins the game.

In addition to instructions, the game material consists of:

  • a game board with the kingdom and the different places and streets,
  • five different colored playing figures,
  • 12 figures of the inhabitants of the country with feet,
  • 12 towers,
  • a "flying carpet" tile,
  • 24 order cards, and
  • 54 travel cards.

The graphic design comes from the illustrator Anne Pätzke .

Style of play

Before the game, the game board is placed in the middle of the table and each player chooses a player color. The corresponding game pieces are placed on the castle in the center of the game board together with the magic carpet. The stand figures are placed on the game board and covered with the towers, then the towers are shuffled and distributed on the yellow fields of the game board. The mission cards with residents seeking help are shuffled, three of the cards are placed face up next to the game board; two cards with the same person looking for help may never be on display in the display. The travel cards are also shuffled; each player receives five cards from these and takes them into hand.

A starting player (according to the instructions, the youngest) starts the game, then the other players play in clockwise order. The active player decides to which place he would like to travel and discards travel cards from his hand according to the routes. He needs donkeys for gray mountain paths, camels for yellow paths, horses for green paths and ships for waterways. As a special card he can use a magic carpet if he is on the field on which the carpet tile is currently located; with this he can fly to any other place and leaves the tile there. After playing the cards, he moves his figure and, if he ends up on a space with a tower, can raise it. If he does this, he has to lift the tower so that all players can see the figure hidden underneath.

If the figure under the tower is a person from the display looking for help, the player may accept this card and thus the search for the person in the speech bubble on the card and place it face up in front of him. However, each player may only place two search cards in front of him at the same time. The tower that has just been revealed is closed again and the player moves it to any vacant yellow space on the game board, after which he fills up the open display of the orders to three cards. If the figure is a person the player has to look for for an assignment, he has fulfilled it and is allowed to turn it over; the card is now worth one gold coin. In this case, too, the figure is hidden again and moved to another yellow space. At the end of his turn, the player draws two cards or, if he exceeds the limit of 10 cards in hand, may exchange two cards.

The game ends when a player has completed three missions and thus received three gold coins. That player wins the game.

Versions and reception

The game Fabulantica was developed by the German game designer Marco Teubner and published in 2017 by the Lithuanian publisher LOGIS . In 2019, a German version of the game was released under license from Pegasus-Verlag .

In the children's magazine, the game was rated as "wonderful children's game, whether visually or playful, succeeded and makes children and adults alike fun." The game critic Wieland Herold rated the game with his second-highest vote "happy tomorrow" and issue the bonds the successful classic games Sagaland and Elfenland .

In May 2019, Fabulantica was launched alongside Go Gecko Go! and Valley of the Vikings nominated for Children's Game of the Year . The jury justified the nomination as follows:

“The author Marco Teubner combines the memo and running game in an innovative way into a child-friendly whole and thus allows a fresh look at familiar mechanisms and the world of fairy tales. “Fabulantica” is a fabulous, tense race that invites you to ever new, adventurous journeys of discovery. It's hard not to be enchanted by it. "

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f game instructions Fabulantica , Pegasus games 2019
  2. ↑ Fabulantica , versions at BoardGameGeek. Retrieved June 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Wilfried Just: Fabulantica review on kinderspielmagazin.de, November 19, 2019; accessed on June 1, 2019.
  4. ↑ Wieland Herold: Fabulantica review on “With 80 games through the year”, May 1, 2017; accessed on June 1, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Fabulantica in the database of the Spiel des Jahres eV, accessed on June 1, 2019.

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