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The authors:
Gunter Baars
was born in 1962 in Hamburg. After he
completed his secondary education, he worked for many
years as a freelance writer, editor, and screenwriter for
MAD magazine and Ottos Ottifanten, among others, as
well as for TV and radio. His first game appeared in 1989,
which was followed by 80 other games to date.
Castle
Climbing Frog
is his latest game that has been published by HABA.
Markus Nikisch
was born in 1973 in Ludwigsburg as the
fifth of six children. He could always find one of his five
sisters who would play with him. He has never lost his fun
for playing, and so he decided to move to Bavaria after he
studied religion and social pedagogy in order to work for
HABA as a game editor. He lives there with his wife Katja and his sons
Joel and Jonas.
Illustrator:
Antje Flad
was born in Merseburg. She studied in Halle
at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design
Halle. After she received her degree, she has illustrated for
different game and book publishers. She has worked as a
freelance illustrator and game designer since 1995. She
lives in Berlin with her husband and son Philipp. For HABA,
she has illustrated puzzles and books in addition to many games.
The authors / illustrator:
Cooperative team game (for 3 - 4 frog helpers):
The rules of the basic game apply with the following changes:
Preparation:
• Remove half the puzzle pieces from the castle tower.
• Shuffle the portrait tiles face-down, count out 12 and place these 12
cards on the garden bed in front of the castle tower. Place the other
portrait cards in the box lid. They are not used in this game.
• Then shuffle the 10 window tiles face-down and place them
uncovered
in the window openings.
• Place all the balls in the holes in the castle pond.
• Decide whether you want to play with the hourglass.
How to play
• In this variant everyone plays together and
only
in game phase 2.
• Turn over the top portrait tile in the pile on the garden bed. Now the
frog is moved by a
team of 2 players
. The left player takes one ball at
the end of the string in one hand and the right player takes the other
ball at the other end of the string in one hand. Now they work together
to balance the item with the climbing frog and take it up to the castle
resident. They will need to coordinate a bit.
• If they manage it together they receive the tile as a reward. Place the
tile in front of the castle.
• If they didn’t manage it place the tile in the box lid. This takes it out of
the game.
• Then the next team takes their turn and cooperates to balance the frog.
To do this turn the top portrait tile over. Each player should play equally
often with every other player! The game ends when all the portrait tiles
have been turned over.
• How many portrait tiles did you collect?
7–12 tiles:
You are the best climbing frogs in the kingdom!
3–6 tiles:
Nice climbing! But you can do better!
0–3 tiles:
Maybe you should just focus on swimming?
Solo game
You can play this game on your own by pulling the frog up the castle tower using both hands. Try to collect more tiles than last time within the
time limit of the hourglass.
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