Orchard Toys Knickerbocker Glory

...~~~Who makes the game?~~~ Orchard Toys Keyworth Nottingham www.orchardtoys.co.uk ~~~Price and Availability~~~ Available in some toyshops, online or by requesting and then ordering from the catalogue. This game retails at a very reasonable £6.00 ~~~What I Think of the Game…~~~ Another well priced game from Orchard toys. Once again, they have produced a game which is easy to explain to young children, and easy for them to play. The pieces ...
...use over many years I think I would have to laminate the bits and pieces (or buy another game). I like the fact that there are two ways to play this game, because the pieces can be collected by number or colour, so handy in order to differentiate, and to enable me to take it at the child's pace. So, for very young children we can concentrate on colour matching, and as children progress we can use the number of dots on the die, count them and find ...

danielalong 09.03.2007 · Read full review
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I first saw this game on holiday when a relative had brought a copy and the swarms of small people we had between the various families all seemed to like it so we bought our own copy when we got back. It's a pretty simple game. Each player starts with thick playing card with the outline of a Knickerbocker Glory icecream (you can tell why kids like it already). The card has recessed spaces for the various fruit layers which the players need to obtain. ...
...the numbers 1 to 6 with each colour/number relating to a layer of the icecream. The game comes with two dice, a coloured one and a conventional dice with 1 to 6 on it. Very small children can begin with the coloured dice and as they get older, progress on to the number one to help them learning both colours and numbers. Whichever dice they use, the idea is the same. The player rolls a dice and if they don't yet have the matching layer in their ...

ilaskey 05.03.2007 · Read full review
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