Schoko-Hexe (1990)

About this game

A simple push-your-luck game card game for kids. To win, you must collect all 6 ingredients necessary to make chocolate; the witches are hoarding the recipe and trying to stop you. The deck (F.X Schmid) has 65 cards : 22 witches (red) and 43 (green) ingredients. There are 6 kinds of ingredients. On your turn, flip cards from the deck until you either: - draw a witch: discard all cards revealed this turn; end of turn OR - decide to stop flipping: add the revealed cards to your collection The first player to collect all 6 ingredients wins. If no one has 6 after the deck is exhausted, the person with the most different ingredients wins. Duplicates are irrelevant, except in a variant (suggested for if playing with many players) where you allow trading. The Ravensburger editions contain 60 cards : 20 witches (red) and 40 ingredients (green).

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 2 to 6.
• Rules load. At 1.1/5 this is a light game — explain it in a few minutes, good for a table that has not played much.
• Age. The publisher suggests 5 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.