Item- no.: 22379
Blue lagoons and coloured fish turn the holiday into an adventure, in
which skill and concentration alone are not enough to win. This games calls for
hand-eye co-ordination, dexterity and fine motor skills.
Age: 5+
Number of players: 2-4
Contents: 1 round
wooden board (355 mm)
4 wooden fish (red, yellow, green and
blue)
16 starfish
in four different colours
1 lighthouse
4 lagoons
4 metal
balls
4 glass balls
1 cotton bag
Game idea and design: Simone Kalz
Sarah and Timmi are going off on their holidays. Both are very excited
because they are going to sail on a large white ship over the wide blue ocean
to get there. The captain of the ship told them that Lagunera was a few little
islands with a single lighthouse. He said the weather was always lovely there
and that you could see the most beautiful fish imaginable in the clear water in
the blue lagoon. Sarah and Timmi don’t want to miss the chance to go diving and
look at the fish. The minute they arrive, they unpack their swimming things and
jump into the warm water, where they find themselves immersed immediately in
the brightly-coloured underwater world.......
Game preparation:
The lighthouse is set up in the middle of the board.
Each player chooses one of the coloured fish and also takes a blue
lagoon, 1 glass ball and 1 metal ball. The fish is put over one of the two
balls. Before starting the game, the players decide which ball should be used
for playing. The metal ball makes the game more difficult, because it rolls
faster. The coloured starfish are placed in the centre of the table.
Rules of the Game:
The youngest child begins and spins the arrow on the lighthouse. The
arrow now points now to one of the board’s coloured edge lines and the player
with that colour fish may begin. He takes his fish and the agreed ball, puts
the ball into the fish and places ball and fish near the hole edged with his
colour.
Now he spins the arrow on the lighthouse and must try to move his ball
into the hole with the colour the arrow is pointing to. That is done by taking
the playing board in both hands and carefully manoeuvring the fish in the right
direction by making tilting and turning movements. If the player manages to
sink his ball into the correct hole, he may pick up a starfish with that colour
and place it into his lagoon. He now removes his fish with ball off the board
and places it in front of himself. It is now the next player’s turn.
Note:
If the
player already has a starfish in the colour the lighthouse points to when
spinned, he may spin the lighthouse arrow again. If the arrow still doesn’t
point to a colour he needs, he forfeits the go.
If the player does not manage to sink his ball into the correct hole and
if instead the ball lands in a hole with another colour, his turn is over and
it is the next player’s go.
If the ball becomes stranded on an island, that player’s turn is over
and the player must place one of his starfish back onto the table, if he has
already collected one.
The winner is the first to fill his lagoon with a starfish in each
colour.
Have a lot of fun in the exciting underwater world!