Zapp Zerapp

Shake wooden pots against the clock to guess how far your pawn moves.

Designers: Heinz Meister, Klaus Zoch
Published by: Zoch Verlag
Editions by: Gigamic, Playmix

It looks like the classic race-your-pawns-home game, but the movement comes from shaking little wooden pots. Two dice set a limit, then everyone grabs and rattles pots at the same time, trying to find the one with the most lead pellets inside without going over. Guess well and you sprint, guess greedily and you get nothing.

Thirteen rattling pots instead of a movement rollEveryone grabs at the same timeOvershoot the dice total and you move nothing

Who it's for

Families who want the shape of a classic race game with a physical, real-time twist. Works from around seven upwards.

Not for you if…

You dislike being knocked back to start or racing against the table for components. Long out of print and mostly a collector's find.

Vibe's take

Frantic, noisy grabbing followed by an immediate reveal, wrapped around an otherwise familiar race.