157 products
157 products
157 products
Orchard Toys Buzz Words
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Regular price £9.50 Save £-9.50A simple matching and memory game. Each player has a board with 6 dinosaur pictures on. The picture cards are placed faced downwards on the table. Players take it in turn to pick a card. If it matches one of the pictures on their card, they keep it. If not, the card is returned to the table face downwards and it's the next player's turn.
The winner is the one who completes their dinosaur board first.
2 - 4 players
Age suitability: 3 - 7 years
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Orchard Toys is a Norfolk-based company designing and making their games in-house. They have been going for years and have a reputation for producing good, honest games which are both fun and educational. All the games are fully tested by teachers and of course by children so they are totally safe and dependable.
Most of the games are aimed at the 3-6 year olds. To an adult the games will inevitably seem somewhat simplistic but they really know that age group so I never have any hesitation about recommending them. Obviously children develop at different rates so some children may not be able to follow the instructions at first but that doesn't seem to matter as they enjoy playing with the colourful cards. As the child develops, it isn't long before they fully appreciate the game and they benefit from the educational aspects whilst enjoying themselves.
.Janod Magnetic Dart Game - Fun Fair
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Regular price £21.98 Save £-21.98Janod Magnetic Dart Game - Circus
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Regular price £21.99 Save £-21.99Children can play darts without damaging themselves or the plasterwork with this magnetic darts set.
Two levels of difficulty: on one side is a large conventional target with smaller targets on the rear.
Comes with six darts which you lob gently at the board.
Board measures 65 x 44 cm but rolls up for easy storage.
Age suitability: 4-8 years.
Schotten Totten 2
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Regular price £13.99 Save £-13.99Boggle
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Regular price £12.99 Save £-12.99Shake up the letters. Turn over the timer. Try and find as many words as you can in 90 seconds. Complicate it by only allowing words whose letter dice touch each other in the grid.
For one or more players.
Ages: 8 upwards if using the complicated rules.
Video explaining the complicated version of the instructions:
.Uno Flip
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Regular price £11.99 Save £-11.99Uno
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Regular price £11.99 Save £-11.99Yahtzee
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Regular price £10.99 Save £-10.99Yahtzee sounds like a traditional Chinese game but, in fact, it was first sold in 1956. It is a dice game, in which you are allowed to throw five dice three times. You aim to achieve various combinations such as a full house or four of a kind. You score each round and add up the scores at the end of the game to determine the winner.
2+ players.
Age suitability: 8+
Here is a useful video by 'Gather Together Games' from Youtube explaining the game:
.Spots
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Regular price £24.99 Save £-24.99Djeco Classic Games Chess and Draughts
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Regular price £17.95 Save £-17.95Kingdomino
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Regular price £19.99 Save £-19.99This game was 'Game of the Year' in 2017. Superficially it is quite simple. Everybody starts with a castle, around which you build your kingdom. Then you choose your dominoes. On these are pictured the type of lands you will have in your kingdom. So you might have a domino with a square of forest at one end and water at the other, or another with meadow at both ends. After you have chosen each domino, you lay it around the castle and, like in dominoes, you can only put a farmland domino next to another farmland and so on. At each step your kingdom gets bigger. The aim though is to build as big an area of each type of land as you can within your kingdom. So you score more points if you have a block of five squares of farmland together than you would if those five squares were split. Once you have all placed your dominoes, that's the end of the game and you have to total the points.
Each round takes about 15 minutes.
2 - 4 players
Age suitability: 8 +
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Bigjigs Jumbo Dominoes
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Regular price £17.95 Save £-17.9528 chunky wooden dominoes in a sturdy wooden box with a sliding lid.
Storage box measures about 33 x 20 x 2.5 cm
Age suitability: 3 years +
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.Bigjigs Mancala
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Regular price £17.50 Save £-17.50Play the centuries-old strategy game on this wooden board.
Comes with 48 colourful acrylic 'stones'.
Two-player game for people of almost all ages (not suitable for the under 3 year-olds - small bits - choking hazard).
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Bigjigs Snakes and Ladders
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Regular price £12.00 Save £-12.00Colourful wooden board with four wooden counters and a dice.
28 cm across
Age suitability: 3 years +
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.Bananagrams
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Regular price £15.99 Save £-15.99Claims to be the ultimate wood game - not sure if Scrabble would agree.
You have to race your opponents to make a word grid and be the first to use up all the letters.
1-7 players
7+ yearsÃÂÃÂ age suitability
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Jungle Speed
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Regular price £14.99 Save £-14.99Jungle Speed is a fast and furious, somewhat chaotic, game of observation and then of lightning reflexes, so that rules me out.
It is a matching game, a bit like snap, but, instead of calling out snap when two cards match, you have to be the first to grab the Totem (the yellow rubber cylinder thing) that sits in the middle of the table.
The cards are divided equally amongst the players (the more, the merrier).ÃÂÃÂ On each card is a symbol in a variety of colours.ÃÂÃÂ Some symbols are quite different, others are deceptively alike. Players place their cards in a pile face down in front of them.ÃÂÃÂ One by one, each player flips over the top card and, as they accumulate, gradually makes a discard pile in front of him.ÃÂÃÂ When one player flips over a card whose symbol matches the shape of the symbol on the top card of another player's discard pile, both players make a lunge for the Totem.ÃÂÃÂ The winner then smugly hands over his discard cards to the loser who puts both these and his own discard cards face down under his cards.ÃÂÃÂ Grabbing the Totem mistakenly results in you getting everybody's discard cards. The winner of the game is the first to get rid of all their cards.ÃÂÃÂ Each game takes about 20 minutes.
To complicate the game further, there are several special cards.ÃÂÃÂ One of these special cards for example changes the rules so that you have to match the colour of symbols rather than the shape. A different special card requires every player to lunge simultaneously for the Totem.ÃÂÃÂ A third one requires everybody to flip over a card at he same time on the count of three.
2 - 8 players
Age suitability: 6 +
Here's an excellent Youtube video from Skip the Rules (NB the Totem has since been changed from wood to rubber):
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