Husch Husch kleine Hexe

Roll a colour, lift a hat and hope your memory survives the shuffling.

Designer: Heinz Meister
Published by: F.X. Schmid
Editions by: Ravensburger, Gigamic, Zoch Verlag, Kärnan

Five little witches hide under pointy hats, and the die tells you which colour to look for. Lift the right hat and you roll again and keep going, lift the wrong one and your turn is over. One side of the die swaps two hats around, which is exactly when everything falls apart.

Correct guesses let you roll againA swap face scrambles hats without revealing themWorks with children from around three

Who it's for

Very young children and the adults playing with them, in short fifteen-minute sessions.

Not for you if…

Anyone at the table is over about eight. There is nothing to decide beyond remembering, and the 1994 edition is a secondhand find.

Vibe's take

Bright and giggly, with short turns and a lot of shared groaning when a swap wipes out what everyone had memorised.