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Animal Upon Animal: Small And Yet Great! box art
2011 Ranked #6,734

Animal Upon Animal: Small And Yet Great!

This dexterity stacking game has players add animals to a shared pyramid without making it collapse. A die determines how many and where to stack, with the first player to place every animal winning.

Children's Action / Dexterity Animals Stacking and Balancing Dice Rolling

Players

2

Play time

Not listed

Age

5+

Complexity

1/5

Rating

6.27

Harder to teach Low interaction Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 1.5/5

Low interaction

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Game description from the publisher: The Animal Pyramid World Championships are under way. There are only two minutes left before the starting whistle is blown for the grand finale.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Dice Rolling

Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Stacking and Balancing

Physically stack components while keeping the structure stable.
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Game description from the publisher: The Animal Pyramid World Championships are under way. There are only two minutes left before the starting whistle is blown for the grand finale. The players try to pile their animals, as skillfully as possible, to form a collective pyramid. But watch out as the animals must not fall off! Who will be the next Animal Tower Stacking World Champion? In Animal Upon Animal: Small and Yet Great!, the players build an animal pyramid by stacking their animals one by one on top of each other, without any of them falling off. The die indicates how many animals can be stacked, where and who shall stack them. Be the first to stack all of your animals in the pyramid and you win!

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Type

1
Children's

Category

3
Action / Dexterity Animals Children's Game

Mechanism

2
Dice Rolling Stacking and Balancing

Family

6
Animals: Alligators / Crocodiles Animals: Bears Animals: Butterflies Animals: Frogs / Toads Components: Meeples (Animal) / Animeeples Game: Tier auf Tier

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2
Best with
2
Play time
15 min
Age
5+
Complexity
1.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Klaus Miltenberger

Artists

1
Michael Bayer

Publishers

2
HABA Swan Panasia Co., Ltd.

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