Games & Puzzles Get Creeped Out with Yamodo
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amodo! Good to Go!: Creepies and Crawlies, the new game from Yamodo!, follows the familiar Yamodo! game play pattern. In traditional Yamodo!, each player selects a card, then uses his or her imagination to draw and define the made-up word on the card. The twist with the themed sets is that the drawings and definitions should relate to the category of the theme.
Play Games with TCG
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CG offers new games for adults. Relay the Game is a fast-paced game that features three games in one. Players simply explain their word as quickly as possible to encourage their opponents to guess correctly. The faster they guess, the more points both players receive. With RFID technology, the baton identifies players, tracks time, and keeps score. Knotz is a fast-playing game of cards. Game play begins with two rows of colored cards and a deck of colored cards for each player. Players turn over their colored cards, one at a time, and find its match in the middle two rows. When there’s a match, players keep their hands on their card pile. The first player to finish matching his or her deck wins. TCG’s new games for kids and families include Sqworm. In this game, players use their “sqworm ’n worms” to surround and eat the most apples. They roll the dice to choose their worm and the number of spaces to move. The player with the most apples eaten wins. Didi Dotter is an egg scramble extravaganza. This fast-paced game challenges players to find their matching egg halves before their opponent steals the other half of the egg to complete their own. The player to match the most eggs and find complete matches for all of their tokens wins. Loopin’ Louie challenges hand-eye coordination when Louie starts loopin’. Players use their springboard to bounce Louie back into the air before he knocks down their chickens. The player with the most chickens in their coop wins. Bouncin’ Bingo offers bouncin’ fun for everyone. To start the game, players bounce the ball into the game box to see what character to cover on their card. The player to match and cover five characters in a row calls “Bingo!” by sounding the noise of his or her card’s character. A Max & Ruby-licensed version is also available. TCG also offers licensed games for kids. With Little Tikes Games for Growing, even the youngest game player can have fun while learning the alphabet, numbers, colors, and shapes. Each game features eight learning card games and three levels of learning, as well as a teaching guide. In the 3-D matching game Lalaloopsy Find ’n Seek, girls lay out the 12 Match-It cards face down, then pull the lever to spin the dial. When the dial stops on a Lalaloopsy ragdoll, players select a Match-It card. If the card matches the ragdoll, players keep the card. A Pocoyo Find ’n Seek game is available as well.
160 • THE TOY BOOK
FEBRUARY 2012