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Dump witch
Game data
author Marco Teubner
graphic Rolf Vogt
publishing company Schmidt Games / Three Magician Games
Publishing year 2016
Art Board game
Teammates 2 to 5
Duration 15-20 minutes
Age from 5 years

Awards

Kullerhexe is a children's game by the game designer Marco Teubner . The game is designed for two to five players, ages five and up, and is based on the ball labyrinth developed by Brio . It was published by Drei Magier Spiele in 2016 . The game was added to the Recommended List for Children's Play of 2017 in May 2017 .

Theme and equipment

The game is about a witch who is looking for various items in the magical forest that she has lost. The players help her and are rewarded with berries by the witch.

The game material consists of the game instructions

  • a playing field in the game box on four foam blocks, on which there are 8 trees and several holes in the forest floor as well as 4 plugs on the field corners,
  • a witch with a ball as a drive and a loosely put on hat,
  • 24 destination cards with the items to be searched for,
  • five small and five big wutzel cards in the five player colors
  • 20 stars to stick on the trees,
  • 108 berry chips,
  • an hourglass
  • and a soffbag.

Style of play

Before the game starts, the playing field is set up, for this it is placed on the foam corners in the game box and equipped with the plugs. The trees are assembled and placed on the field, the hourglass is placed in the middle of the field. The Kullerhexe is placed on any object as a starting position before the game. The target cards are shuffled and placed next to the game as a face-down draw pile, the berry chips are placed in the cloth bag and, depending on the number of players, the stars are laid out. Each player chooses a color and receives the corresponding Wutzel cards. In addition, he is assigned the corresponding hole on the board as the “Wutzel Cave”.

The game is played in clockwise order by teams of two. The playing field is placed between the players, who tilt it with the help of pressure on the connectors and the foam pads and thus move the witch rolling through the ball. The team reveals a target card and places it face up next to the playing field, then the hourglass is turned over and the players have as long as the sand in the hourglass to reach the depicted object. If you reach the item before, you can turn over another card and continue like this until the time is up. If the witch gets into one of the Wutzelhöhlen or another hole or loses her hat, the turn ends prematurely.

After the move, the goal cards reached are counted and the players each receive the corresponding number of berry chips, which they put in their Wutzelhöhle on the board. Then one of the stars is placed on a tree as a counting marker and it is the next team's turn. As soon as all the stars have been placed on the trees, the game ends. The winner is the player with the most berry chips in his Wutzelhöhle.

Version for two players

In the version for two players, the players play together against the forest, Wutzel cards and stars are not required. The target cards are shuffled and placed face-down as a stack next to the playing field, then six stacks with six berry chips each are placed next to the field. The game runs over six rounds, in each of which one of the berry stacks is used. The game is played as in the basic version, with the players at the end of the game exchanging their target cards for the berries from a pile and putting the remaining berries from the pile aside for the forest. If after six rounds the players have earned more or the same number of berries as the forest, they have won.

Expenses and reception

The game Kullerhexe was developed by Marco Teubner and published in 2016 as a multilingual version by Drei Magier Spiele , the children's game brand of the Schmidt Spiele publishing house , for the International Game Days in Essen (SPIEL '16). Like numerous other games from the publisher, Die kleine Zauberlehrlinge was illustrated by Rolf Vogt .

The game was presented and reviewed on various platforms. In a review in the magazine Spielbox , Harald Schrapers describes the game: “First-class material, a totally playful design of the details ('money boxes' embedded in the game for the victory points) and the community experience when working under time pressure ensure enthusiasm at Kullerhexe. “In May 2017, Kullerhexe was included on the recommendation list for children's game of 2017 and on the list of nominations for Graf Ludo , a prize for the best game graphics of the year.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Game instructions Kullerhexe
  2. ↑ Versions of Kullerhexe at BoardGameGeek; accessed on May 22, 2017.
  3. ↑ Harald Schrapers: Kullerhexe. Spielbox 7, 2016; P. 54.
  4. ↑ Game of the Year 2017, nominees and recommendations on the website of the Game of the Year eV; accessed on May 22, 2017.
  5. ↑ Graf Ludo 2017 - The selection list ( memento of the original from October 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.modell-hobby-spiel.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved June 26, 2017.

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