How to play Frag doch mal...die Maus! on Mac

Game summary

Everyone in the German speaking territory grew up with the Maus. The show "Die Sendung mit der Maus" by German public TV station WDR is on TV for over 40 years. Quarterly a Saturday prime time live Quiz show is produced by WDR, which is the basis for this Quiz game. Originally released on PC in in 2008 it earned many game awards including "Best German Kids Game 2008". This completely redesigned product returns with many new features and is available for mobile devices for the first time. Hours of fun are waiting for kids and parents answering about 1000 questions and with approximately two hours of original video content with the famous "Sachgeschichten by Christoph and Armin".
First released: Dec 2016

Play Frag doch mal...die Maus! on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Frag doch mal...die Maus! on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Frag doch mal...die Maus! installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Frag doch mal...die Maus! like you would on any PC.
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