Haba Breeds Bunnies for Easter

With Easter arriving in early April in 2010, German publisher HABA is breaking out the bunny games in March for those all-important pre-Easter sales. In Inspektor Hase, designed by Heinz Meister, players use their rabbit inspectors to hunt down crooks – but every crook has a twin, and you can arrest a crook only when you can nab the pair of them. (This surely violates all kinds of police guidelines, but perhaps leporine law works differently than that for humans.)

How do you catch the crooks? When one of your rabbit inspectors lands in a search area, you can turn the two face-down tokens located there face up. Plop another rabbit into a second search area which turns out to have a matching crook, and you can claim the two of them. Depending on the number of players, the first person to capture three or four pairs of crooks wins. (2-4 players, ages 6+, 20 minutes, €15)

Hasenjagd, aka “Rabbit Hunt,” has players take turns moving a rabbit through the grass, trying to avoid foxes along the way. The hare card that a player chooses uses arrows to show where the rabbit moves – and if you can’t lay hare cards to move the rabbit to safety, then you’re out of the round. Hop the right way, and you’ll run away with the golden carrot. (2-4 players, ages 6+, €6)

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