
2022Wolfgang Warsch
Mainly reviews. That's Pretty Clever! Kids is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 4 reviews, 1 how-to-play guides, 2 recorded sessions, and 1 unboxings.
From BoardGameGeek
You want to get your hands on everything you can at the birthday party: balloons, gifts, candles, and mountains of sweets! Will you be able to grab more than all the other partygoers? Auch schon clever (German for "Also Pretty Clever") features gameplay similar to Ganz schön clever, with one player rolling dice on their turn, then choosing what they want while everyone else gets something from what's left behind. On your turn, roll the five dice. The faces of these dice show a joker symbol or an icon on one of four colored backgrounds. Choose all the dice of one background color, taking any jokers at the same time, then use the symbols on these die faces to mark off items in this colored area of your score sheet: Balloons are in the yellow area, for example, and you must mark them off left to right: red, blue, green, lilac, blue, etc. For the train of candles in the orange area, you must have as many candles as are on the next train car in order to mark it out. Gifts in the green area can be marked off in any order. Sweets in the blue area are depicted in pairs in rows - doughnuts, cake, cupcakes - and you mark spaces in a row left to right as long as you have a pair of matching sweets on the dice. If you can't use a die that you took, e.g., you took red, blue and lilac balloons and could mark off only the first two, then you must return the unused dice to any others left behind. Each other player then chooses dice of a single background color - and players can choose the same or different colors - and marks off what they can. If you mark off a circled item or a row of gifts next to a circle, you can immediately cross off an item in the section of the same color as that circle. Crossing off this item might give you another bonus! When a player marks off all items in one area, the game ends at the conclusion of that turn. Various items or rows that you complete have rainbow stars connected to them, and whoever collects the most rainbow stars wins!
Review
That's Pretty Clever! Kids has 8 videos from 7 creators: 4 reviews, 1 how-to-play guide, 2 playthroughs and 1 unboxing. They date from 2022 to December 2023.
To learn the rules, start with "All the Games with Steph: That's Pretty Clever Kids!" by Steph Hodge, which runs 18 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Auch schon clever (Schmidt) - ab 5 Kinder - Roll & Write - nominiert zum Kinderspiel des Jahres 2022" by SpieleBlog. 4 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Auch Schon Clever - GameNight! Se10 Ep3 - How to Play and Playthrough" by BoardGameGeek, one of 2 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Quacks, The Same Game, The Quacks of Quedlinburg: The Duel and Quacks & Co.: Quedlinburg Dash, also by Wolfgang Warsch.
2023Wolfgang Warsch
3 - 6 players30 - 45 minLight weight
2024Wolfgang Warsch
2 players45 - 60 minMedium weight
2022Wolfgang Warsch
2 - 4 players25 minLight weight
From BoardGameGeek:
You want to get your hands on everything you can at the birthday party: balloons, gifts, candles, and mountains of sweets! Will you be able to grab more than all the other partygoers? Auch schon clever (German for "Also Pretty Clever") features gameplay similar to Ganz schön clever, with one player rolling dice on their turn, then choosing what they want while everyone else gets something from what's left behind. On your turn, roll the five dice. The faces of these dice show a joker symbol or an icon on one of four colored backgrounds. Choose all the dice of one background color, taking any jokers at the same time, then use the symbols on these die faces to mark off items in this colored area of your score sheet: Balloons are in the yellow area, for example, and you must mark them off left to right: red, blue, green, lilac, blue, etc. For the train of candles in the orange area, you must have as many candles as are on the next train car in order to mark it out. Gifts in the green area can be marked off in any order. Sweets in the blue area are depicted in pairs in rows - doughnuts, cake, cupcakes - and you mark spaces in a row left to right as long as you have a pair of matching sweets on the dice. If you can't use a die that you took, e.g., you took red, blue and lilac balloons and could mark off only the first two, then you must return the unused dice to any others left behind. Each other player then chooses dice of a single background color - and players can choose the same or different colors - and marks off what they can. If you mark off a circled item or a row of gifts next to a circle, you can immediately cross off an item in the section of the same color as that circle. Crossing off this item might give you another bonus! When a player marks off all items in one area, the game ends at the conclusion of that turn. Various items or rows that you complete have rainbow stars connected to them, and whoever collects the most rainbow stars wins!
Designer
Wolfgang Warsch
Artists
Glen Viljoen, Marie Zippel
Publisher
Schmidt Spiele
Categories
Mechanics