Richard Morris
Scotland
Harrogate
North Yorkshire
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This Christmas I splurged a bit on games for the (grown up) kids, so there were lots of things vying for attention after the christmas pud. I intend to do session reports on new games, all being played with newbies to the game, of course.
The first new game to hit the table was Dancing eggs. I bought this for no. 2 daughter, who keeps chickens. Or, at least, used to - a fox got them just a few days after I tracked down a copy of this for her.
If you don't know dancing eggs, it is a light hearted party game, with a box of, well, eggs. 9 of these are bouncy eggs, and the tenth is a wooden one. The purpose of the game is to get hold of, and hang onto, the most eggs. The mechanics are simple - players take turns to roll a picture die, to see what their action will be. If you are lucky, to get to say "cluck, cluck, cluck" and get an egg from the box. Or, perhaps, you get the action where the first to grab the die gets the egg. Two similar pictures have you racing to say "cock-a-doodle-do" for an egg, but if you say it too quick and it is the wrong picture, you lose one. Mayhem follows if you roll the picture that has everyone running around the table with the first to get back to the start getting the egg. And there is a final picture that has you bouncing an egg on the table with a mad scramble to catch or, failing that, eventually collect the egg.
When you are lucky enough to get hold of an egg, you then have to roll a die to find out where you must keep it - under an armpit, between the knees, under your chin, and so on. So the dexterity bits get quite awkward once a few eggs are in play.
The game continues until someone drops an egg, and the winner is then the one who has most eggs. The wooden egg never gets bounced, but is worth double, making it a prize posession. Once all the eggs are out of the box, then you get to steal one from another player when you need one - so the wooden egg tends to get passed around.
So how does it all work, then? Well, frankly, not all that well, but that doesn't really matter. First of all, there is a pretty obvious flaw in the rules. Since the game ends when a player drops an egg, as soon as a player gets 2 eggs ahead of the rest, he will 'accidentally' drop one - as the son immediately realised. The running around the table became chaotic - a procession of active players who could not overtake each other, and so arrived back at the same time, with players with eggs between their knees trying to get out of the way, as they could never compete. And once all the eggs were out of the box, we just kept swapping the wooden egg, until someone eventually dropped an egg 'properly' and we declared the end.
But, hey, all of that doesn't really matter at all. It was fun, and competitive to play. Everyone laughed, whether they were playing or watching, so it satisfied the purpose it was bought for. A good enough game in the right circumstances.
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T.L.W.
United States
Maryland
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AnnuverScotinExile wrote: But, hey, all of that doesn't really matter at all. It was fun, and competitive to play. Everyone laughed, whether they were playing or watching, so it satisfied the purpose it was bought for. A good enough game in the right circumstances.
I think you hit the main point of the game right there! It is really just an excuse for adults (if they are the ones who play it, and with me I have only played it with adults) to giggle extensively. We've always had fun with this game.
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Dane Barrett
New Zealand
Henderson
Auckland
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AnnuverScotinExile wrote: First of all, there is a pretty obvious flaw in the rules. Since the game ends when a player drops an egg, as soon as a player gets 2 eggs ahead of the rest, he will 'accidentally' drop one - as the son immediately realised.
I might be wrong here, but the rules say:
"The game ends as soon as one of the players lets one or more of their positioned eggs drop. The other players score one point for each of their eggs. The wooden egg scores two points. Whoever scores the most points, wins the egg battle."
The rules made it sound like the person who dropped an egg didn't score.
Of course, the fun part of the game is adapting it to the type of people who are playing the game (strict rules for adults, not so strict for kids).
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