Crazy Circus
BGG rank
BGG #8,053
BGG rating
6.2

Crazy Circus

2002

Rules assistance for Crazy Circus

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 1–10 players
  • 20 min
  • 8+
  • Complexity 1.5/5

For 1 player

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Crazy Circus is a board game released in 2002 for 1–10 players, 20 minutes per game, and ages 8 and up. It was designed by Dominique Ehrhard and its main mechanics are Real-Time.

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About the game

Crazy Circus – one of many names under which this design has been released – is a simultaneous puzzle solving game. Three animals stand on two platforms, and you are trying to change their configuration to match a target card by issuing commands like "Ma", which moves the bottom animal on one platform to the top, or "Ni" which swaps the top two animals on the two platforms. As a result, the game is a race to shout out multi-syllable commands such as the eponymous "MaNiKi", or "LoNiMaSo". The first player to do so correctly wins the target card, and whoever collects the most cards wins!

Mechanics

Publishers

  • N.W. Damm & Søn (Damm)
  • Jumbo
  • FoxMind
  • Reveal Entertainment, Inc.
  • GameWorks SàRL

Questions and answers

Crazy Circus supports 1–10 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.