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Letter Dwarves Review

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(More customer reviews)Letter Dwarves is a game produced by Haba aimed at reinforcing alphabet and vocabulary skills in children ages 6-10 (these are the manufactuers recommended ages, I believe kids as young as 4 can enjoy this game). Haba is known for producing kids games with high-quality components and this one is no exception.
The goal of Letter Dwarves is to be the first player to move your dwarf pawn around the board while collecting at least 3 gold tokens. To accomplish this, players flip tiles depicting one of the following:
1 - a set of objects
2- "Fairy Forget-me-not" holding a picture frame asking you to name 2 objects, 2 animals or give 2 names
3 - "Hob Hotchpotch" holding a frame asking the player to identify a letter falling between two other letters
For tiles 1 or 2, the player has a choice of using one of 4 letters, each of which is resting on a barrel on the gameboard and each having a point value (1-4) used to move the players dwarf around the board. The player must choose one of the four letters to name an object on the card (in case 1) or 2 animals, objects or names (in case 2). In order to land on treasure spaces and collect gold, the player may need to use a specific letter associated with the number of spaces he needs to move. This is the stage where vocabulary comes in as players try to think of different ways to name an object on the card (ie "castle" could also be "fortress" or "palace" etc...). Alternately, if a player draws tile type 3, they name the missing letter and roll a 6-sided die to determine movement points.
My kids enjoyed Letter Dwarves, though perhaps not quite as much as some other games we've played. I do think this is a good game to help younger kids work on their vocabulary and alphabet. I also like the fact that it encourages kids to really use their powers of observation at times. My son needed to name an object beginning with E and had a card with a Zebra, a Camel, a fence, shed, bushes... and was drawing a blank until it finally hit him that the animals had Eyes and Ears. For my daughter, the game was good for getting her to identify beginning sounds of words with their letters.
Overall a pretty good game for kids. It's hard to go wrong with Haba, a company that consistently puts out quality products.

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Hob Hotch, the tricky little elf loves nothing better than hiding letters all around the alphabet village.Helped by the fairy Forget-Me-Not, the eager letter dwarves are trying to put all the letters back in order around the village.Can you help them?Letter Dwarves is an excellent game for learning and teaching the alphabet as well as new words, inspiring creativity in the young and old alike.Intended for 2-4 players, ages 6-10 years. Contents: 4 dwarves, 1 game board, 40 cards, 26 letters, 26 coins, 1 alphabet strip, 1 die, 1 little bag, set of game instructions. Designed in Germany.

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Grasshopper in Zahlenland Review

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(More customer reviews)This game is just a set of round mats numbered 1 - 20, each with the correct amount of grasshoppers on it as an aid for children who are a bit shaky with number recognition.
You lay them out on the ground (I suppose you could make a hopscotch if you like) in random order (though nothing is stopping you from using them as a numberline) and there's a list of games for the tiles included - such as having one child jump on two different numbers and a second child jump on the sum (and then make a new problem for a third child, and so on). Obviously, you could make up your own games with these as well, and are not restricted to what they list.
You could get a similar effect by writing numbers on paper and taping them to the floor for each game, but let me say that this seldom works as well as you think.
Edit: By the way, just to clarify - the picture shown is NOT the item in question.
Edit again: LOL, a short time after writing my edit, the picture was fixed. I was helpful! If the image shows children jumping around on numbered pads, it's the correct picture.

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Let your little grasshoppers have fun learning their numbers in this fun game.Children will love jumping from mat to mat as numbers are called."Grasshopper in the Land of Numbers" is an active game for 1 or more players.Included: 1 starting mat, 1 target mat, 20 numbered mats, and 1 set of game instructions.

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Monza Review

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This game was a gift to my boys (then 7, 4 and 3) and it is on the short list of games we ALL can enjoy. While no reading is required, the color matching necessary to advance the farthest possible distance in each roll of the dice keeps kids thinking and strategizing. Fast-paced, yet interesting enough for mom and dad too. Small sized game board and durable wooden play pieces are cute and user-friendly for little hands. Every time we get this one out, I find myself smiling and thinking, what a great little game!

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The racing cars are competing.But only if the color of the square adjacent to the racing car is shown on the dice, can the car zip ahead.A speedy car race for 2 to 6 playes encouraging early tactical thinking.Product imported from Germany

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Ear Tug Review

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(More customer reviews)Another fabulous game from Haba! It is a take on any other bingo style game, with a few twists.
Ear Tug consists of 9 heavy cardboard squares, each decorated with an animal with cut outs where the ears should be. There is a blue fabric bag that contains 21 wooden and colored shapes, that represent the ears.
The object is to pick a card (or 2 or 3 or 4 depending on the number of players). Each player puts their hand into the bag, which you cannot see through. You must pick out a shape and if it matches one of your cards, you place it on that card and play on. There are 3 blue pieces that cannot be used, just to keep things interesting. The person who wins is the one that fills their cards first.
We bought this 3 years ago for my now 6 year old. She and her brother, age 3, love to play this game together. There is no need for parental help, reading or counting. It is simply a your turn/ my turn type game.
It has held up and is quite durable. I recommend this!

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HABA 3125 -A great color and shape recognition game. Players pick an ear out of the bag and need to find the animal it belongs to. A game to train the sense of touch and classifying abilities. Contains 9 animal cards, 21 wooden ears and a cloth bag. Game lasts approx. 5-10 minutes.Recommended for 3 years and up. Made in Germany.

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Keep it steady - by HABA Review

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(More customer reviews)We purchased 3 Haba games for our 4 year old daughter this Christmas: This one, Animal Upon Animal, and Socken Zochen.
Something that really makes this game stand apart from the others is that it leaves adults and kids on a pretty level playing field. Hands down, the best feature of this game is its accessibility to very young children, without the detriment of having to dumb down the play to allow them to win. My youngest - 23 months - can even join in on the fun. She does tend to 'lose' most times, being a bit more clumsy (sometimes intentionally) with the pieces, but since winning and losing are moot concepts at her age, she's hardly heartbroken over this matter, and often delights in seeing the pieces collapse. Other times, a game where we include her can actually go on for a good bit, depending on her mood.
The game consists of the wooden ring, 27 6" long sticks in vary widths: 9 large width blue sticks, 9 medium width red sticks, and 9 thin yellow sticks, and a die with two sides yellow, two sides blue, two sides red. The gameplay is simple. Grab all the sticks together, slide the wooden ring around the center of the bundle, give it a twist, and stand it up. This procedure is not easily manageable by a young child, and must be done by an adult. It's also worth mentioning that the game must be played on a cloth or carpeted surface as the sticks are liable to slide on a slick surface like a table with as small a movement as the roll of the die.
The game begins by rolling the die, pulling out the corresponding piece, and taking turns back and forth this way until the structure collapses. A caveat to this rule is if you roll a color that would surely topple the whole thing you can forfeit your turn, returning a piece of the same color and point value to the box. If all the pieces of the color you roll are already drawn, you may chose any color.
At the end of the game, assuming you make it to the end, which is the point that 3 sticks are left standing and all others have been drawn, you tally the score for each player based on the worth of the sticks. Blue are 3, red are 2, and yellow are 1.
This game reminds me of a combination of advanced pick-up sticks, and booby trap (or hens and chicks as some might know it) because of the multi-colored pieces and the corresponding difficulty in removing large pieces versus small.
It's a great concept. Easy to play, difficult to master. Because the balance of skill isn't skewed toward the adult, I don't feel I have to pace myself to give my daughter a fair chance. Because the integrity of the stack is reliant on all moves played, once it becomes unstable it's anyone's guess who will topple it. I bring the pile crashing down as often as the kids do. Which of course, makes this a great deal more fun to play than many preschool-aged games for mom and dad.
All told, I think this is a fantastic little game. And, of course, I love that is made in Germany, not China.

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Keep It Steady! is a fun game for children ages 6 and up. Similar to the traditional game of "Pick Up Sticks", this German version adds an element of complexity with a wood ring. Children place all sticks inside the ring and stand it vertically. Whoever can pick out the most sticks without causing the ring to collapse wins! Played with 2 - 4 players.

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Animal Yahtzee - by HABA Review

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(More customer reviews)We put this in my 4 year old daughter's stocking this year for Christmas, and we've gotten a great deal of play out of it since. It's a great deal of fun to play because, with only minimal assistance and suggestions, my daughter can rely on luck, which puts the two of us on a level playing field. I don't have to 'dumb down' my playing to give her a fighting chance, which makes it more fun for me too!
The game plays pretty much like the classic game of Yahtzee. There's a pad of paper with a similar layout to the Yahtzee scoring system, only replaced with animals, and symbolic shapes to signify the 'full house' and other scoring combinations. We actually play without the second half of the sheet, only playing the top half of the sheet because it overwhelms my four year old. The scoring is a little different also, with the bottom half of the sheet being mostly lower-scoring combinations versus that being the big payday in original Yahtzee.
There are five dice with six animals; a puma, an elephant, a camel, a snake, a baboon, and a parrot. Each is color-coded for ease of recognition, and matching with the scoring sheet.
Even my not-quite two year old can get in on the fun with this one, which is nice because she so often gets excluded from games to a great extent. All of our card games are too old for her, Animal upon Animal requires too much skill, and Sochen Zochen is just beyond her capabilities. But with this one she can get her turn rolling the dice and feel like she's a 'part of the game' even if she isn't really aware of scoring or the actual gameplay. She really likes the baboons on the dice :)
The tin makes nice storage, and is used for rolling the dice in as well, and it does come with four small pencils, which seemed to mark up the dice terribly. They need their own separate bag, as the dice needed a really good cleaning first time we opened the game.
All told, this is a great game, in a perfect, durable small package (great for taking on vacation!), with playing possibilities for a large range of ages. I highly recommend it.
Also, if you are concerned with country of origin, the game and its pieces are made in Germany.

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Animal Yahtzee is a charming game for children ages 3 years and up. You will love the colorful tin case (perfect for storage and travel) and child-friendly design of the dice. Counting animals on the dice is undoubtedly more fun for young children than counting dots on traditional dice! Roll the dice, count how many of each animals are face up and add up the points. Whoever has the most points at the end wins! Play with 2 - 4 players.

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Haba Egg Race Game Review

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(More customer reviews)What a lovely toy this one is. I fell in love with the picture and the description so I just had to order it for my daughters and I'm so glad I did. This is obviously designed for outdoors but is winter time here in NY and my daughters are playing inside the apartment and having lots of fun. Even me and my husband are running trying to balance all these cute pieces from one side of the apartment to the other. Great toy for helping with balance.beautifully made and comes in a sling bag perfect to take with you to the park. I have only see this toy carried by two sellers online so get yours before the summer gets here and it gets sold out.The seller was great too, shipped the item the day after I ordered and I got it in less than three day even though I paid for Standard shipping. Just perfect!

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Test your balance or race a friend while transporting different shapes and characters on your balancing sticks. Let's see if you can do it without anything falling off! Includes 2 balancing sticks and 22 balancing pieces (frogs, clown heads, eggs, and various shapes).

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MONZA racecar RACING BOARD GAME race car kids HABA NEW Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this game for my 4 1/2 year old son because he loves anything that has to do with cars. It turns out my husband and I both love playing it with him because it is a little bit more challenging than other board games of this type, like Candy Land. In this game, you have a race track with 3 lanes and each lane has colored squares in it that are staggered with the squares in the lane next to it. Each player rolls 6 colored dice. You advance your car by matching the colored dice with the same colored squares that are adjoined to the square your car is on. Sometimes your roll can give you different routes to take on the track and you have to figure out which sequence of dice will get your car the furthest around the track. After reading the directions, I thought it might be too advanced for my son, but he picked it up pretty quickly and likes playing it and the game is interesting enough for adults too.

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On your marks, get set, go! In Monza, small racing cars speed around the racetrack - but not with big engines. What matters in this gameis tactical thinking and a little luck with the dice. Obstacles need skillful negotiation! A speedy car race for 2 to 6 players, ages 5 and up.

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