Four to me!

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Four to me!
Game data
author Heike Baum
graphic Johann Rüttinger , Chris Sharp
publishing company ASS Altenburger ,
Schmidt games ,
noris games
Publishing year 1996
Art Child's play
Teammates 3 to 8
Duration 30 minutes
Age from 5 years

Awards

Four to me! or 4 to me! is a children's and memory play the games author Heike tree . The game for three to eight players, ages five and up, lasts around 30 minutes per round. It was published by ASS Altenburger in 1996 and later by Schmidt Spiele and noris Spiele , and in 1996 it won the special children's game award as part of the game of the year .

Theme and equipment

The game is a quartet and memory game in which the players have to collect four animals according to their mission cards. The animals are hidden in plastic cans that the players get and have to exchange. In addition to the instructions, the contents of the game box consist of 24 animal figures, 24 green plastic boxes and 24 search cards with four depicted animals each.

Style of play

At the beginning of the game, all animal figures are put into a green plastic box and then mixed well and distributed evenly to the other players. Then the search cards are shuffled and each player receives two cards, the rest of them form a face-down draw pile. Each player can look at the contents of his cans.

Starting with a starting player, the players can now ask the other players about individual animals in order to find the animals depicted on the search cards. If a player owns the figure that was asked for, he must hand it in and the questioner may ask another player for a figure. If the questioned person does not have the figure, the questioner's left neighbor begins the next round. As soon as a player owns all four animals depicted on one of his search cards, he shouts “Four to me!” And receives the card as a point and may draw a new search card.

The game ends as soon as a player has successfully completed his last search card and cannot draw any more cards. The winner is the player with the most fulfilled cards and thus the most points.

Expenses and reception

The game four to me! was developed by Heike Baum and was published by ASS Altenburger in 1996 . In 1998 the game was published as a new edition by Schmidt Spiele and in 2013 it was published by noris Spiele . It also appeared under the name Zoo as multilingual versions in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish as well as in English, Estonian, Latvian and Russian. In France, the game appeared under the name Mes Quat 'z'Amis by ASS and later as Animazoo and in English it was published as Noah's Park in 2001 by Ravensburger .

Four to me! was awarded the special children's game prize in 1996 as part of the game of the year . It also won the award for the best children's game in 1996 at the Swedish Årets Spel game award .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d Instructions for the game Four to me! (Edition Schmidt Spiele, 1998)
  2. ↑ Versions of Four to Me! in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English); accessed on December 28, 2017
  3. ↑ Four to me! on the jury 's website for Children's Play of the Year ; accessed on December 28, 2017

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