A wobbly stacking game !

Animal Upon Animal

Instructions

Copyright HABA Spiele Bad Rodach 1998

for 2 - 4 animal piling players ages 4 - 99.
Author: Klaus Miltenberger, Illustrations: Michael Bayer
Length of the game: approx. 15 minutes
The little penguin carefully tries to reach
the top of the animal pyramid.
He gently climbs on the back of the
crocodile and quickly jumps over the
collar lizard. From there he balances with utmost skill over the snake and
quickly stands on top of the tucan. He just has to pass the bleating sheep
and only an inch or so is left to the top.
Skillfully the penguin pulls himself up onto the tail of the monkey. Quite
breathless but overjoyed he reaches the top of the animal pyramid and
proudly looks down. Down below the ant hegdehog is already waiting,
thinking: “How, for heaven’s sake, will I climb up there?”

Contents
29 wooden animals, 1 die with symbols, set of game instructions.

Aim of the Game

Who is the most skilful at stacking and will be the first left without any
animals?

Preparation of the Game

Play on an even surface.
Select the crocodile and put it in the center of the table. It is the first
animal of the pyramid.
Each player selects seven different animals and puts them in front of
them as provision.
If there are two or three players the remaining animals are kept in the
box.

How to Play

Play in a clockwise direction.
Whoever can balance on one foot like a flamingo for the longest time,
starts the game. If you can’t agree, the youngest player rolls the die.
What Appears on the Die?
A dot
Take an animal from your provision and place it carefully with one hand
anywhere on the pyramid.
Two dots
Take two animals from your provision and pile them carefully one after
the other, with one hand, onto the pyramid.
The crocodile
Take an animal from your provision and put it next to the mouth or tail of
the crocodile so that both animals touch. Thus you enlarge the piling
surface used for piling animals.
Each time this symbol appears on the die, you can place an animal from
your provision next to the animals touching them.
The hand
Choose any of your animals and give it to another player who now has
to pile the animal carefully on the pyramid.
The question mark
The other players now determine which of your animals you have to pile.
Do this with utmost care.

Collapse of the animal pyramid!
Have animals tumbled down during stacking? Or does the whole pyramid
collapse? The stacking ends immediately.
Important rules in case of a collapse
• If one or two animals have fallen off, the player who tried to pile them
has to take them into their provision.
• If more than two animals have fallen off, the player takes two of them
and puts the rest back in the game box.
• Has the entire pyramid collapsed? The player has to take two animals.
The crocodile is put back in the center and all remaining animals are
returned to the box.
• All animals fall off the pyramid without anybody intervening? In this
case all the animals which have fallen off are placed back in the box.

End of the Game

The game ends as soon as a player is left without animals. They win and
are elected best animal stacker of the day.

Variation for Animal Stacking Experts
Experienced players also take the following supplementary rules into
account!
• If you are less than four players you distribute the remaining animals
at random between you.
• If animals fall off the pyramid, the piling player has to take up to five
animals.
• If it is the turn of a player who is left with just one animal the die isn´t
thrown, but the player takes the animal and stacks it immediately onto
the pyramid.

If you want to pile animals on your own
How many animals can you pile on the crocodile without the pyramid
collapsing?