All the best for children. Game Review Alles Tomate!
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We continue our column about children's toys. In the near future, I will try to describe the minigames I have recently bought (it will take a few weeks to describe all the children's games, let's start with the minigames). I love small games because they don't take a lot of time to play (not always parents have), plus the format is perfect for traveling (lightweight and doesn't take up a lot of space).
Today we will talk about the game Alles Tomate!, a good filler for children with a short session of 15 minutes.
HISTORY
Grandfather and grandmother need to be helped to deal with the economy on the farm, they are very old and do not have time to remember where and what needs to be taken where. Help them remember where the shovel is kept or where the horse needs to be tied.
GAME PROCESS
A row of 7 cards is laid out, on which plots of the farm are depicted, each of the cards has its own color (7 colors in total) and finely drawn objects (such objects are present on cards of the same color in the main deck).
Opposite each of the seven cards from the deck, one item card from the deck is placed face up. Together, we have two rows one below the other: the upper one is a farm, the lower one is an item from the farm, pulled from the deck. The players look at all this and after that the cards are turned face up.
Remember where and what was? Forward! We take the top card from the deck and turn it over. For example, they pulled out a chair drawn on a blue card. Where is our blue farm, and what was under it just now? The first one to shout out the correct answer gets a card from under the farm and takes it for himself. The newly drawn card takes its place.
And so in a circle until the deck ends. Whoever collects the most cards wins.
CONCLUSIONS
The game won a number of awards, such as the Children's Game of the Year and the German Game Prize in the field of education. In Germany, I brought this game to the teachers in my daughter's class (first grade), it became part of one of the weekly lessons, when instead of a lesson, the children have a board game session. Thus, in Europe, the education system allows the teacher himself to determine the curriculum.
On the one hand, the game is very simple, on the other hand, it is a good tool for learning words and, especially, foreign words. It is easy for a child to remember new words, having a visual series. There is excitement in the game form.
Diversify the rules by adding a clause that all words, let's say, should be pronounced only in English or German. You don't know the word - flew by. Now my daughter is learning German and with the teacher at home they also use it perfectly for their lessons.
My verdict: simple, fun, unfussy. A wonderful school game tool (by the way, it was originally released for them). There is no depth, but this was not foreseen by the concept. Instead, it is perfect for learning a language.