Hare & Hedgehog

  • Game Typ: Hand Management, Resource Movement
  • Player: 2-6
  • Age: 8+
  • Play Time: 45 min
  • Autor: David Parlett
  • Illustrator: Büttner & Plümacher
  • Publisher: Ravensburger u.a.

The original „Hare and Tortoise“ or in German „Hase und Igel“ is a game from 1973 and is now one of the classics among board games.

It has a very clever movement mechanism that offers several strategies for winning the game. In principle, you can move your token forwards and backwards, and the aim of the game is to be the first to cross the finish line with your piece. Moving and reaching the finish line is of course tied to certain rules. For example, it costs carrot cards if you want to make big jumps forward, whereas you get new, healthy snacks if you fall back to a hedgehog field.

Everything is set up as a kind of race, as is already suggested in the fairy tale of the same name. On the way across the fields of the game board, in addition to collecting and handing out carrots, you also have to eat all the lettuce heads, because you are not allowed to enter the goal, the farm, with these in your hand.

Managing the few different supplies is very interesting. For example, you can get vegetables from carrot fields, but you can also give them away, which is very important for certain victory conditions at the end. You need a holistic strategy for this game, as well as a little tactical skill and improvisation, for example if an opposing figure occupies exactly the field that you could use most right now. Then you have to re-plan and rethink your steps.

And as if that wasn’t enough, rabbit cards also bring with them completely unforeseen tasks, which can sometimes be used to your advantage. Not all rabbit cards have bad events waiting for the player. Last but not least, you can predict your own position in the race and if you’re right, you get a big carrot bonus.

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