Der Grüffelo: Das große Schattenspiel is a cooperative game for 2-4 players, ages 5 and up. The game box is turned into a small shadow theater, where silhouettes are shown in the theater before each turn. Each player is going to be the "Shadow Master", who mustn't take part in the guessing then, however. The shadows have to be discovered (colored and lovingly illustrated) as quickly as possible on the board. Who discovered the correct one of the 48 different shades scenes will be rewarded with a nut and may continue to move the team to to the next space on the forest path field. If the guess was incorrect, it costs a nut-chip and the team stone also is not being moved.
You can only win together when the team reaches the finish. In addition, the player with the most nut chips is then also the team winner. The team can just as well lose together, because we know that the Gruffalo is sometimes a pretty bad guy, which is not to be trusted so completely. Therefore, there are also shadows in the game for which there is - how mean! - no matching scene on the board. As it is, be extra careful then and be not deceived by the Gruffalo. If the Gruffalo card was four times in the game, unfortunately, the whole team has lost.