Ghost stairs

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Ghost stairs
Game data
author Michelle Schanen
graphic Johann Rüttinger
publishing company Three magician games
Publishing year 2003
Art Board game
Teammates 2 to 4
Duration 10-15 minutes
Age from 4 years

Awards

Children's Game of the Year 2004
Japan Boardgame Prize Children's Game of the Year 2004
Vuoden Peli Children's Game of the Year 2005
Årets Spel Children's Game of the Year 2006

Geistertreppe is a children's and family play the games author Michelle Schanen . The game for two to four players, ages four and up, takes around 10–15 minutes per round. It was published by Drei Magier Spiele in 2003 and won the Children's Game Critics' Prize in 2004.

Theme and equipment

The game is about a race on a flight of stairs that leads to the hiding place of an old ghost. The fellow players embody children who want to annoy the mind. However, this gradually transforms all children into ghosts and these are exchanged again and again on the way up.

In addition to the instructions, the contents of the game box consist of:

  • a square game board showing the ghost staircase with 22 steps
  • 4 colored pawns with magnets on the head
  • 4 ghost figures with metal discs inside
  • 4 colored discs
  • a six-sided special cube on which a ghost is depicted on two sides

Style of play

At the beginning of the game, each player chooses a color and receives the corresponding color disc and the colored game figure. The pawns are placed on the starting field, then the dice are rolled in turn. The die shows the eye values ​​1 to 4, the other two sides each show a ghost. If a player rolls a number value, he goes up the corresponding levels, if he rolls a ghost, a pawn of his choice is covered with a ghost pawn. In this way, all the characters gradually become ghosts. The players try to memorize their own figure and move it on according to the number of dice rolls, with further ghost throws they may swap any two ghost figures.

The winner of the game is the player whose figure reached the top of the stairs first. It is possible that this does not reach the goal through the player, but because of the mix-up by another player. Each player has the color chip for control purposes.

In a game with two or three players, all four pieces are still used; they gradually enter the game by swapping them. In the case of games with older children, it can be agreed as an additional rule that if all the ghosts have been distributed, two ghosts or two color chips of the other players can be swapped.

Versions and reception

The game Geistertreppe was developed by Michelle Schanen and was published in a multilingual version in German, English, French and Italian for the International Game Days in Essen in 2003 by Drei Magier Spiele . As a result, the game appeared in numerous other languages, including the northern European languages ​​Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish, the Iberian languages ​​Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese as well as Greek. In 2004, the expansion bottle spirit appeared , which makes the game material playable for up to six players and, as an addition, brings a spirit bottle to the game to capture a spirit.

The game Geistertreppe won the 2004 Children's Game Critics' Prize 2004. It also won analogue prizes for best children's game in Japan 2004 ( Japan Boardgame Prize ), in Finland ( Vuoden Peli 2005) and in Sweden ( Årets Spel 2006).

In 2009, Geisterwäldchen was a continuation of the game by the same author.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c game instructions ghost stairs
  2. ↑ Versions of the game Geistertreppe in the board game database BoardGameGeek; accessed on January 29, 2018.
  3. ↑ Expansion of the Bottle Spirit for the game Ghost Staircase in the BoardGameGeek game database; accessed on January 29, 2018.
  4. ^ Ghost stairs on the jury 's website for Children's Play of the Year ; Retrieved December 8, 2016
  5. ^ Japan Boardgame Prize Ghost stairs on the Japan Boardgame Prize website; Retrieved December 8, 2016

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