Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2013

Rio revival - a toddler game (to be verified)

I've got a two-year-old son, who has gotten his first board game for christmas.
Luckily he seems to like games as much as his father (which is quite an ambiguous statement, but I don't know how to put it otherwise).
So - after several rounds of "Mein erster Obstgarten""My first orchard", I am looking for some diversion.

  • When I was a kid, I was quite addicted to a game called "Rio".
  • Thinking about it now, it's quite dumb since you cannot decide very much... but my memory (and the comments in the link) tell me, that for the right age, it's a cool game.
Building it

  • In the original, you had to throw the dice and understand the numbers on the board
  • that's more than I want to demand from him, so the numbers "1", "2" ... "6" have to go and will be replaced by dice images
  • The sticks are nice but I'd prefer coins since he should't play with matches yet
  • Print out the right version
  • Color it the way you like (and better than me, please)
  • Glue it on a card board 
  • cover it in transparent film (if your child gets teeth at the moment and everything in his vicinity is soggy...)
  • Cut it out along with the round holes next to the dice
  • Glue it on another card board so the holes get a backside
  • Cut out the slot for the "6" after the glue has hardened.
Rules of the game

  • Every player gets 6 coins, you have to get rid off to win the game
  • You have to roll the dice and
  • ... when the correspondent field is empty, you can place a coin there
  • ... when the correspondent field is not empty, you have to take the coin
  • As long as you can place coins, you can continue to roll the dice
  • In the first round, you can only roll it once
  • When you roll a "6", the coin disappears through the slot, which is always a good thing...

Since I have surely forgotten half of the rules, here's a link to the  german description.

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