Mmm!

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Mmm!
Game data
author Pure Knizia
graphic Andreas Resch
publishing company Pegasus games
Publishing year 2015
Art Board game
Teammates 1 to 4
Duration 20 minutes
Age from 5 years

Awards

Mmm! is a cooperative family and children's game by the German game designer Reiner Knizia . The game for one to four players, ages five and up, takes about 20 minutes per round. It was published by Pegasus Spiele in 2015 . In the same year the game won the Austrian game award Spiel der Spiele and in 2016 it was nominated for Children's Game of the Year .

Theme and equipment

The aim of the game is that all of the other players, acting as mice, collect as much food as possible from a storage room before the cat is at the room.

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

  • a double-sided game board, each side of which shows a field with food and a hallway with cat tracks,
  • 56 mouse tiles with the face of a mouse
  • three wooden cubes, each with a red X and the five different foods (fish, cucumber, cheese, bread and carrot)
  • a wooden figure in the shape of a cat

Style of play

Before the game, it is selected which side of the game board will be played on. The game board marked with two paws is a little more difficult to win than the one with a paw symbol because of the food shown. The wooden cat is placed on the starting field of the corridor ledge with the paws, all mouse tiles are placed next to the game board.

The game is cooperative and players can consult during the game rounds. The starting player ("the bravest" according to the instructions) rolls the three dice and must then place at least one of the dice on a corresponding food item, the X cannot be used. Depending on the game plan, the food consists of two to four or two to five individual parts. Depending on the choice of the player (or the playgroup), he can then roll the remaining dice again or transport completely filled food away. If the player rolls the dice again, he places at least one dice after the roll and can, depending on the decision, roll the last dice again. After the third throw at the latest, at least one food item must be completely covered with dice (and tiles from the preliminary rounds) in order to be transported away. In this case, all fields covered with dice are covered with mouse tiles, including those that do not belong to completely covered foods.

If the player rolls the dice and then cannot place any of the dice on a free space with a food (because he only rolled X or no longer available food) or if no food is completely occupied at the end of a turn, he must remove all the dice that were already on the table Take the space and your turn is over. At the same time, in this case, the cat moves one step forward, as no food was removed on this move.

The game ends when the mice have removed all of the food before the cat reaches the pantry; in this case the players have won together. If the players fail to do this, they have lost together.

Rule variants

To make the game more difficult, the game rules suggest two variants. One possibility is to use the somewhat more difficult game plan with longer foods. Another variant to make the game more difficult is a special rule in which the first die placed determines the position of the other dice in the round. The following dice only have to form a vertical or horizontal line with the starting dice.

Reception and extensions

The game was developed by German game designer Reiner Knizia and was published by Pegasus Spiele in 2015 . In the same year the game won the main prize of the Austrian game award Spiel der Spiele and in 2016 it was nominated for Children's Game of the Year . In 2015 and 2016 versions were also published in English, Polish, Czech and Spanish / Portuguese.

According to the Children's Game of the Year jury, Mmm! “A feeling of community in an inimitable way. Everyone is there at every moment, everyone makes their culinary contribution on the way to the feast. Particularly positive: the game fascinates children and adults alike. It works equally well with any number of players, even alone and with six. "

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f game instructions Mmm! at gesellschaftsspiele.piele.de; accessed on February 21, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Mmm! on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV ; accessed on February 21, 2017
  3. ↑ Mmm! , Versions at BoardGameGeek. Retrieved February 21, 2017 .

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