I’m so happy I received a Press Release from Blue Orange Games celebrating back to school. Charlie will be in 6th grade and my nephew will be in Kindergarten.
Ages 4 and UP
2-4 Players
It’s nap time for the itty bitty kitties, but they just want to play! Help them jump, bat the yarn balls around, and race to the basket without catching a look from the watchful eyes of the mommy cats. Each turn, roll the dice, look for the mommy cat matching their colors, and lift one. If she doesn’t catch you, your kitten advances one yarn ball closer to the basket and you get to go again. If she spots you, it’s the next players turn. The first kitten back to the basket wins! Players must correctly identify colors, and remember which mommy cat eyes will catch the kittens so that the fun never stops in this adorable memory game.
Skills:
•Visual Perception
•Memory
•Social Play
Play Time: 20 minutes
Contents:
•4 Wooden Kittens
•9 Wooden Mommy Cats with 18 Eyes
•1 Wooden Basket
•10 Wooden Yarn Balls
•2 Wooden Colored Dice
•Illustrated Rules
2-4 Players Hey there, little anglers! Pick up your lucky fishing line and head to the pond for a crazy game of fishing! Follow the card at play and use your line to catch the correct objects from the water before the yellow duck makes it out. The first player to complete 5 challenges wins the game and becomes the champion of the pond!
More than a fishing game, Fishing Day is a clever race made of color and shape recognition, deductions, and counting challenges.
Skills:
•Fine Motor
•Focus & Attention
•Social Play
Contents:
•1 Pond in a Box
•4 Wooden Fishing Lines
•12 Wooden objects: Fish, Boots and Frogs
•1 Wooden Yellow Duck
•32 Challenge Cards
•Illustrated Rules
1 Player
The Mindo Collection consists of 4 clever puzzles; can you collect and master them all? Play solo, or combine them and race your friends. No matter which version you choose the rules are the same: turn and flip the double-sided tiles until you have recreated the color pattern on the challenge card. They only fit one way into a 3×3 or 4×4 grid, so think and plan carefully. 60 different challenge cards and 4 levels of difficulty ensure hours of brain teasing fun!
This kitten themed solo puzzle is the paws-itively adorable version of Mindo! Bella and her kitten friends infuse the brain teaser with a colorful dose of cute.
Skills:
•Visual Perception
•Logic
•Focus and Attention
Contents:
•60 Challenge Cards (with solutions)
•9 Tiles
•Illustrated Rules
Discover the art of storytelling with Tell Tale. Be guided through your own unique tale with cards illustrated with a variety of characters, settings, objects and emotions. If a picture is worth a thousand words, imagine the possibilities with 120 inspiring images! Create your own storyboard or improvise a tale together; there are four ways to play! In this creative storytelling game, everybody is a winner.
See Tell Tale Fairy Tales version
Skills:
•Language
•Listening
•Creativity
•Self-expression
Contents:
•60 Cards
•Illustrated Rules
In this fun word game, players roll 10 dice, 5 with a letter, and 5 with an illustrated topic, and race to find matching words. A winning matching word must start with one of the letters showing on a die, and must belong to one of the category showing on a dice of a different color. With topics like Celebs, TV shows, piece of clothing, ‘’something square’’, an animal leaving on land, and many more, this game is sure to entertain your creative mind and guarantees busts of laughter!
Skills:
•Speech & Language
•Creativity
•Social Play
Contents:
•5 Letter Dice
•5 Topic Dice
•Illustrated Rules
Super Genius Collection: Super Genius Reading 1
•This reading matching game focuses on the Dolch list of the most common sight words from children’s reading books, and helps prepare early readers for more complicated language skills to come. There is always a match between any two cards. Find the pair between a word and its image, two images or two words.
Developed hand-in-hand with learning professionals, this Super Genius game was specifically created with early learners in mind.
Skills:
•Visual Perception
•Focus & Attention
•Speech & Language
•Processing Speed
Contents:
•62 Cards
•Illustrated Rules
A world is taking shape in the palm of your hands. Take on the role of super beings and compete to create perfect worlds with the ideal conditions for wildlife to flourish. In this very unique game, each player’s board is a 12-sided 3-dimensional planet core. Throughout 12 turns, select landscape tiles representing oceans, deserts, mountains or frozen lands, and arrange them on your planet to create the best ecosystems. Win Animal Cards while fulfilling your own ‘’Natural Habitat’’ objective and create the most populated planet in the universe!
Skills:
•Strategy
Contents:
•4 Planet Cores
•50 Magnetic Continent Tiles
•45 Animal Cards
•5 Natural Habitat Objective Cards
•1 First Player Token
•Illustrated Rules
This ball rolling game using the forces of physics gets tougher with higher level challenges!
Skills:
•Visual Perception
•Focus & Attention
•Logic
Contents:
•1 Maze Board
•21 Walls in 3 sizes
•5 Steel Balls
•40 Challenge Sheets
•3 ”Make your own” Challenge Sheets
•Illustrated Rules
Rummy stacking building blocks! Create Sets and Runs by combining blocks that range in height of 1 to 7. Sets are made with 3 or 4 blocks of the same size, but different colors. Runs are made up of 3 or more blocks of the same color in consecutive order. New opportunities come from the ability to stack blocks on top of others to form new heights. Think ahead and make the right decisions, without losing track of what’s on the table as you disassemble Runs and Sets to reassemble them into new ones, trying to get rid of your blocks.
Skills:
•Strategy
•Focus & Attention
•Math
Contents:
•56 Blocks (7 sizes, 4 colors, 2 of each)
•4 Block Trays
•1 Bag
•Illustrated Rules
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
I’m super excited about these games you know how much the kids love kitties and fishing!