Purzelbaum - Board game Zoch - Free user manual and instructions

Product type	Board game
Brand	Zoch
Model	Purzelbaum
Number of players	2 to 4
Recommended age	From 4 years
Game duration	About 15 to 20 minutes
Box dimensions	About 30 x 30 x 7 cm
Weight	About 800 g
Main materials	Cardboard, plastic
Box contents	1 tree trunk, 8 branches, 16 leaves, 16 acorns, 1 ground with 20 holes, 20 discs
Game mechanics	Dexterity, memory, luck
Game objective	Collect the most leaves and acorns
Authors	Harald Fecher, Thomas Liesching
Illustrations	Doris Matthäus
Translation	Eric Bouret
Publication year	2019
Publisher	Zoch Verlag
Care and cleaning	Clean with a dry, soft cloth
Safety	Contains small parts, not suitable for children under 3 years
Spare parts and repairability	Spare parts are not available separately. Contact Zoch customer service in case of loss or damage.

Frequently Asked Questions - Purzelbaum Zoch

How is a game of Purzelbaum played?

The game takes place over two seasons: autumn and winter. In autumn, players knock acorns off the tree by aiming at holes to win leaves. In winter, they lift discs to dig up acorns and collect additional leaves. The player with the most leaves and acorns combined at the end wins.

What is the recommended age for this game?

The game is recommended from 4 years old. It is perfect for preschool and early elementary school children.

How many players can participate?

Purzelbaum is played with 2 to 4 players. Ideal for a small family or group of friends.

What to do if an acorn falls out of the box?

If an acorn falls next to the box, the player's left neighbor can bury it in a hole of their choice before taking their turn.

How do you win a leaf in autumn?

To win a leaf, the player must knock an acorn directly into the open hole. If the acorn falls into the hole, the player retrieves the leaf they used to push.

When does winter begin in the game?

Winter begins as soon as the last acorn has been buried in a hole. All discs still on their green side are then turned to the white side (snow).

How to dig up acorns in winter?

The player lifts a white disc of their choice. If there is a leaf on it, they also collect it. If the hole contains acorns, they take them. Then they close the hole by turning the disc back (white side if there were acorns, green side otherwise).

How is the winner determined?

The player with the highest total of leaves and acorns wins. In case of a tie, the one with more acorns (thus fewer leaves) wins. There can be multiple winners.

Can I get spare parts?

Spare parts are not sold separately. In case of loss or damage, please contact Zoch customer service via their website.

How to maintain the game?

Clean the pieces with a dry, soft cloth. Avoid water and chemicals. Store the game in its original box away from moisture and heat.

USER MANUAL Purzelbaum Zoch

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A foray through the seasons for 2-4 smart squirrels, 4 years and up, by Harald Fecher and Thomas Liesching

After ripening over summer, acorns and nuts drop from the trees in autumn. Smart squirrels especially like to stash nuts in their secret hiding places so that they can nibble their way through the supplies during winter. In spring, when the snow has melted, the squirrels look forward to having fresh nuts again soon.

Now YOU do it like the squirrels do: Find suitable hiding places. Drop the nuts in and take a juicy leaf as a reward for your successful work. Then, in winter, when everything is covered in white, you'll certainly find exactly those hiding places that contain a lot of nuts ... or not?

Game Materials

1 tree trunk, 8 branches (4 short ones and 4 long ones), 16 leaves, 16 nuts, 1 meadow grid, 20 meadow disks

Set-up of the Game

You play PURZELBAUM right inside the bottom part of the box. To begin with, take everything out of there – except for the brown box insert.

Put the meadow grid on the box insert.

Place one meadow disk on each hole in the meadow, with the green side facing up.

Stick the tree trunk into the center of the box, with the knotholes upwards.

Stick the branches into the tree trunk from the side. You may distribute the short and long branches in the holes in any way you like and let them stick out of the trunk in different lengths.

Spring has come...

Spring makes the leaves sprout. Stick one leaf on the end of every branch.

Now summer has arrived...

The nuts grow and ripen. Stick one nut on the end of every branch.

And finally it is autumn... the game can begin!

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Object of the Game

Collect the most leaves and nuts! In autumn, you can gather leaves. In winter, you can gather leaves and nuts. If you have collected the most of them by spring, you are a particularly lucky squirrel.

Course of the Game

The last player to have nibbled a nut begins the game in autumn. After that, players play in turn – just like clock hands revolve.

In autumn, you can gather leaves if you drop a nut right into the target hole.

Your game turn is as follows: Lift up a green meadow disk and put it next to the box.

Let a nut tumble off a branch.

Use the leaf to shove a nut of your choice off the branch from behind ... and try to hit the hole you have opened!

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Hit the target? Super! You get the leaf! If the nut has landed in the hole, you may now take the leaf you used to shove the nut off the branch, and put it in front of you.

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No matter whether or not you have gotten the nut into the hole, now close the hole again:

Put the meadow disk, with the white side facing up, back on the hole – this shows that the first snow has fallen here.

Missed? Pity!

You do not get the leaf!

If the nut has not landed in the hole, you put the leaf on the meadow disk that you have used to close the hole again.

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After that, you bury this nut in a different hole.

To do this, there are 3 possibilities:

If the nut is lying on a meadow disk, bury it in the hole underneath it.

If the nut is lying between several meadow disks, bury it in the closest hole. gelegenen Loch. If several holes are equally close, choose one of them.

If the nut has landed next to the box, your left neighbor may bury it in a hole of his choice before he takes his game turn.

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ATTENTION! This hole is closed in a different way! Do not turn the meadow disk over. Instead, put it back onto the hole in the same way it was there before. If a leaf has been lying on it, it remains there after you have buried the nut.

Keep in mind how to close holes that you have opened: Holes that you have opened before the nut drops are closed with the winter side facing up. Holes that you open after that because the nut has missed the hole are closed in the same way it was as when you opened it.

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As soon as you have buried the final nut, winter arrives. At this time, there are also no leaves left on the tree. Now, turn over all meadow disks that are still green to their white winter side, so there is snow everywhere. If there is a leaf lying on a disk, leave it where it is.

The player who collected the fewest leaves in autumn takes the first game turn in winter.

If several players have collected the same lowest number of leaves, the player who initially went last in the order of play may start.

In winter, you can dig up nuts and gather leaves.

Your game turn in winter is as follows:

Lift up a white meadow disk of your choice.

If a leaf is lying on this disk, it is now yours. Put it in front of you. If there are nuts in this hole, they are now yours. Put them all in front of you.

If you have found one or more nuts, close the hole again, with the white side of the meadow disk facing up – do it quickly, since it will be winter there for some time yet!

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If you don't find any nut, place the meadow disk with the green side facing up on the hole - it has already started thawing there..

Ending and Winning the Game

As soon as the whole meadow is green again, winter is over. Now compare everybody's collection of leaves and nuts. To do so, you can simply put them next to one another and check who has collected the most.

Benjamin

Nicolas

Clara

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If you are good at counting, you may add up all your own leaves and nuts.

If you have the most, you win. If several of you have the same number of leaves and nuts in total, the player who has more nuts (and consequently, fewer leaves) wins. There can be more than one winner.

Clara is the winner.

She has gathered 5 nuts and 6 leaves. Nicolas also has 11 leaves and nuts in total – but one fewer nut than Clara. Benjamin even has 7 nuts, but only 3 leaves; this adds up to a total of 10. With this, Benjamin comes in third, after Clara and Nicolas.

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Now, in spring, the game ends... and you can start the next one right away, since the year's clock never stands still.

If you want to learn more about squirrels and about what you can do if you find a lost squirrel, check out the information of the Eichhörnchen-Notruf-Verein (Squirrel SOS Association). The German website is http://eichhoernchen-notruf.com/ Plus, there is a British website, http://www.saveoursquirrels.org/, that is committed to saving Northern English red squirrels from local extinction.

Translation: Sybille & Bruce Whitehill

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