Fun with Unravel!

Another one of our new games is Unravel. This game is very cute! Basic game play is as follows: Someone rolls the die and everyone checks what color it ends up on. Once you know the color you find the matching kite and try to be the first one to follow the string correctly to the character flying the kite. Once a person thinks they know the answer they grab the character card and yell STOP. Whoever guesses correctly gets a pinwheel and the person with the most pinwheels at the end wins.

Now you may be saying that this game is too easy because after a while you just know where the strings lead, but the game makers accounted for that! So, to shake things up a bit the board is divided into 4 pieces and each piece is double sided. When a person correctly guesses the kite flier they get to choose one board piece to flip over, which alters the string layout. There is also an added element where there is a picture of a balloon and a picture of a bird on 2 of the sides. If the side where you can see the bird or balloon is visible, then when someone rolls the color of either of those things the players don't try to figure out the kite string but race to be the first one to grab the balloon or bird card. This game is really good for mental mapping, quick thinking, and color recognition.

S really enjoyed the game and he played it for quite a while. I didn't really partake in the guessing because I wanted him to have a chance to figure it out, but he didn't seem to mind that I was just watching and cheering him on. To keep Z happy during the game he was dubbed the official die roller and that worked out well too. Z would roll, we'd all yell out the color, and S would go to work trying to figure it out as fast as possible. It was fun for all of us, but I know S would enjoy it more to play with some of his friends. We may have to set up a few SimplyFun playdates soon!  Also, you may notice our dog in the background. She thought we were all crazy with yelling colors and we were clearly disrupting her nap...

If you would like more information about Unravel or to order please visit here. I'm also happy to answer any questions you might have!

After we cleaned up Unravel, Z wanted to play Tibbar's Tangrams. I posted a review on that game here. Of course Z is still a bit too young to grasp creating pictures with the pieces, but he really enjoys shouting out the names of the shapes at whoever will listen (including our dog) and then stacking them however he likes at that moment. It was really comical that day because each time he'd yell the shape at the dog, she'd lift her head in response and then when he'd go back to stacking she'd lay back down again.I'm just happy that he knows his shapes!

My boys are really enjoying all of these games and we're looking forward to a few more new ones in the mail soon!