Professor Pünschge challenges your intellect

In these days in which the Pisa study and new methods of learning are being avidly discussed the Munich games publisher Zoch has brought an entirely new type of game onto the market which really hits the nerve of the time. "Professor Pünschge" is a playful intelligence test, which demands abstract thinking and combinations. A game which does not call for knowledge, but stimulates the intelligence thanks to a lot of cooperative fun. The game is nominated for the "ToyAward 2009" in the category game & action by the Toy Fair.

Who could guess that in the task “red cloth“ the professor must call at all fields with bulls or in “place in the sun“ he has to call at all fields with a bench and a sun on his way home? Only one person knows the rules. For the others the way is the goal. The new playful intelligence test by Klaus Zoch of the game publisher with the same name is called “Professor Pünschge“. Every evening the cunning loner chooses a different way home. This makes it difficult for the players to crack the logic of his thoughts. 26 fields over meadows and mountains, through forests and over rivers offer the professor 702 different ways home and only the respective game leader, alias Pünschge, knows which he’ll take. The other players try to crack the code together. Whoever guesses the question behind the moves is rewarded with crystals. Even the professor himself can earn some.  
This cooperative intelligence game for two to eight players twelve years and up calls for unconventional thinking and a good ability to combine. The questions are divided up into five levels of difficulty, so that the challenge to the players’ intelligence can be playfully increased: Whereas “jealousy“, which demands that the professor crosses all yellow fields in the correct order, is still simple, the task “the traffic light never turns red” is already more demanding. Mathematicians are sometimes called for in the more difficult questions, when prime numbers are needed, for example. The best thing to do is to gradually get used to thinking “around corners”. Working things out together is fun and represents a real challenge.   
With a lot of love for detail a tip was worked out for each secret path and can be used for support. Professor Pünschge is a perky wooden figure and the graphic in midnight blue by Eva Paster, on which the mastermind pulls his ideas along with him, are almost mystical.

Professor Pünschge – a playful intelligence test
Author: Klaus Zoch
Graphics: Eva Paster
2 to 8 players 12 years and up
Game duration 30-45 minutes
Price: approx. EUR 35
In stores from end of October 2008

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