Stone Age Junior

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Stone Age Junior
The game Stone Age Junior, played at Spiel '17 in Essen.
The game Stone Age Junior,
played at Spiel '17 in Essen.
Game data
author Marco Teubner
graphic Michael Menzel
publishing company Hans im Glück Verlag
Publishing year 2016
Art Board game
Teammates 2 to 4
Duration 15 minutes
Age from 5 years

Awards

Children's game of the year 2016
Essen spring 2016

Stone Age Junior is a children's and family game by the game designer Marco Teubner . The game for two to four players, ages five and up, lasts around 15 minutes per round. It was published by Hans im Glück Verlag in 2016 and won the children's game of the year critics' award and the Essen spring in 2016 .

Theme and equipment

The game is about re-enacting the life of people in the Stone Age . For this, the other players explore the area, collect goods and can swap them to expand their settlement. The game is played against the background of the story of Jono and Jada, which is told in the instructions.

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

  • a game board showing the Stone Age village and the surrounding area
  • 4 colored pawns with magnets on the head
  • 4 player markers
  • 4 "Settlement" filing boards
  • 20 goods (each 4 times teeth, berries, fish, jugs and arrowheads)
  • 15 tiles with a hut motif
  • 2 plates with a dog motif
  • 14 forest tiles, on the back of which there are dice eyes, goods, a trade motif, dogs and a building site

Style of play

At the beginning of the game, each player chooses a color and receives the corresponding player marker and the colored playing figure as well as the settlement board with the mammoth in the corresponding color. The game pieces are placed on the construction space in the middle of the game board. The goods are distributed to the goods fields depending on the number of players; one goods is placed on the exchange field. The hut tiles are placed face down in stacks of five tiles each on the hut spaces and the top one is revealed, the two dog tiles are also placed on the corresponding spaces on the game board. Finally the forest tiles are shuffled and placed face down around the playing field.

Stone Age junior, resources and characters

In the course of the game, players must collect goods that they can exchange for huts at the construction site. In turn, they each carry out their activities, which consist of three phases. First, one of the forest tiles on the edge is revealed, which determines the further action. When the forest tile shows a die, the pawn is moved forward on the board by the number shown (1 to 6) and thus moves from the building site to the various playing fields. If the forest tile shows a symbol, the figure is drawn directly onto the corresponding action space. Depending on the respective action field, the player's action now takes place:

  • On a goods space, the player can take one of the goods on display and places it on his tableau. If there are no goods on display, he gets nothing.
  • A player can exchange any number of goods on the exchange space for five goods on display. He receives one commodity from the exchange field for his own commodity.
  • On the dog field, the player takes one of the two dog tiles from the game board or, if none is available there, “steals” it from another player.
  • When a player comes to the construction site, he covers all open forest tiles and leaves them on the respective square; he may then swap two of the covered forest tiles. In addition, the player may build a hut on the construction plan. To do this, the player must own all the goods shown on one of the open hut tiles and bring them back onto the game board from his board. If the player has a dog card, he can use it as a joker for any goods. If the hut is successfully built, a new hut card is revealed.

As soon as a player has built three huts, the game ends. The winner of the game is the player who was able to build three huts first and thus complete his settlement.

reception

The Stone Age Junior game was developed as a children's version of the Stone Age game by Bernd Brunnhofer (pseudonym Michael Tummelhofer), which was also illustrated by Michael Menzel . In 2016 it won the children's game of the year critics' award and the Essen spring , with the design of the game instructions being particularly praised.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c How to play Stone Age Junior
  2. ↑ Stone Age Junior on the Children's Game of the Year Jury website ; Retrieved December 9, 2016
  3. ↑ German game award and award of the "Golden Feather" at SPIEL 2016 Press release on essen.de, October 14, 2016; Retrieved December 9, 2016

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