I currently work with children ages 5-10. I am the site director where I work and it’s part of my role to find fun and engaging games and activities for the children to enjoy. We are a “screen free” program, so their fun comes from board games, card games, outdoor play and physical activities we set up for the kids each day (weather permitting of course).
I love it when I get the opportunity to review a fun toy or game for my “work kids,” most especially something that is new and one they have never played before. They are bored with the “classic games” most of them already own at home.
I was recently send a fun and challenging card game from Quarto called Who Flew the Coop? In this “egg-cellent” card game players need to figure out which chicken “flew the coop.”
Can you solve the mystery of the missing chicken?
Be the first to find out which chicken flew the coop in this fun and easy-to-learn card game. There are three ways to play, with rules based on memory match and old maid, plus a bonus Pick-a-Chick magic trick for added egg-citement! Meet Blizzard, Little Red, Tweetheart and a flock of im-peck-able chicken characters, and eliminate suspects until you reveal the mystery chicken to win. Best of cluck!
I liken this game to a memory card game, which essentially what it is. But it’s not your ordinary game. There is that extra component of trying to figure out which chicken (or rooster) is missing.
To play this game, lay all the cards down randomly, with the “egg-ception” of one card, which needs to be slipped inside the provided envelope. No one is to know what card was put in that. That card has the identity of the missing chicken.
Players take turns trying to find matching cards (each chicken and rooster has two different cards, just slightly different than one another). As players continue to make matches, they need to try and figure out which character is on the missing card.
It’s easy enough to play and understand (one of my 5 year olds was playing this with no problem). As an adult, these kids “kicked my butt.” I guess I’m bad at memory games (I think I should be concerned about my memory!). I played a few times and I could barely make any matches. Meanwhile the kids I was playing this game with took to it quickly and mastered it in no time.
They played this game for over an hour (different kids, but some played more than one round). It was definitely a huge hit at the site where I work.
I cannot share the images of the kids I work with (for obvious reasons) but I did take a photo of one of the games they played. I just had to block their images.
There is another way to play, and a magic trick. We have not moved on to those yet. They were having too much fun playing the game as we were. I’m sure once all the kids have played the game they way we were, we’ll try the Old Maid version.
The magic trick looks like fun. I think I’ll do that when I get to work today and “wow” the kids with my skills. Ha Ha.
I love the cards! They are so cute and funny. The chickens and roosters look so zany, and they have silly names too.
I like that some chickens and roosters look a wee bit similar (color, feathers…) adding to the challenge of finding exact matches (always check the critter’s name to make sure it’s the same).
This is a really fun game, and I think older kids will enjoy it too (my 8-10 year olds also played and had fun with it). I’m an adult and I enjoyed it too.
The cards fit together in a small sized box, making this an easy game to travel with.
If you want to learn more about this game you can check it out on the Quarto website by clicking HERE.
This game is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndiBound, Books-a-Million and BookShop.org. You can find the direct links on the Quarto page linked above.
Be sure to follow Quarto on social media. All their links are found on the bottom of their website.
Kimberly
*I received a free sample in order to do this review. There was no compensation. The opinions expressed are my own and not influenced in any way.
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