get crane and
dice ready
roll dice
try to fish out
block of same
color
Done? Take block
Block of another
color? Return
block
Various blocks,
one or more of
them of the color
on the dice? Take
blocks
Not color on
dice? Return
blocks
longest row =
winner
Get crane and dice ready.
The ruler and pegs are needed for the game variants described further
down and are kept in the box.
How to play:
Play in a clockwise direction.Whoever has most recently seen a crane, may
start. If you can not agree, the youngest player starts by rolling the dice.
Then they take the crane and drive it up to the construction site.
A building block of the color shown on the dice has to be fished out.
•The player decides up to which spot next to the construction site fence
they want to drive the crane.
•The player may get up and walk around the construction site.
Is a building block clinging to the hook? Lift it by winding.
• Is the color of the building block the same as shown on the dice?
Well done, little crane operator! You take the block and put it in front of
you.
• Is the color of the building block different than the one on the
dice?
Unfortunately you can not keep the block, but have to place it back
inside the construction site.
• Are various blocks hanging from the crane?
You really have worked flat out!
• Are there one or more blocks of the same color as on the dice?
If so you may keep all of them and put them in front of you.
• If no block is of the right color, you have to place all of them back in
the construction site.
Finally, check the construction site and make sure that all the metal buttons
face upwards. If they don’t, turn them so that all metal buttons of all the
blocks face up.
Then it’s the turn of the next player.
End of the game:
If the dice shows a color of which there are no more building blocks left on
the construction site, the game ends.
The player who can lay out the longest row with their blocks, wins the
game and is named Head Crane Operator.
Habermaaß game nr. 4221
Block on block
A game of skill with a color dice for 1 – 4 little crane operators aged
3 to 6. With authentic crane.
Author: Markus Nikisch
Illustrations: Sabine Kraushaar
Length of the game: approx. 10 minutes
”Watch out! Dangerous load!” shouts the little construction worker and
tries to lift a block of the color shown on the dice with the crane. To do so,
some skill is needed as in a flash the wrong block can hang from the hook
of the crane!
Contents:
1 wooden crane
18 colored building blocks
1 construction site
1 yardstick
4 colored pegs
1 color dice
1 set of game instructions
1. Free play
Free play requires eye to hand coordination and improves children´s motor
skills,
• by moving the crane, testing the crank of the crane and trying to fish for
building blocks.
• by playing with the building blocks.
Play with your child and by imitating typical construction site noises, foster
speech and hearing as well as your child´s love of play.
2. Game with rules
Aim of the game:
Who will be the crane operator to fish the most right blocks out of the
construction site and become head crane operator?
Preparation:
Place the construction site in the center of the table or on the floor.
Put the 18 building blocks inside.Watch out that the metal buttons face
up.
fish as many
blocks as possible
blocks into
construction site
