Gobblet!

Gobblet! - A 4X4 grid with four different sized pieces to gobble up other pieces. Time to get serious!

Put on your thinking cap and come to the table ready to focus. More difficult than Gobblet Junior and Gobblet Gobblers, Gobblet! uses a 4X4 grid, requires four in a row to win (instead of three) and has four different pieces sizes (instead of three). It's time to get serious!

The rules for Gobblet! are simple, get four of your color game pieces in a row to win. A win can be vertical, horizontal, or diagonal. Each player gets 12 pieces or four different sizes. Pieces are hollow so they can gobble up other pieces, as you place your piece over your opponent's piece. All pieces are made of wood, including the box, and are well constructed. The box is used to store the pieces, and the lid of the box is the playing board, which slides off so you can get to the pieces. The game creator, Blue Orange, plants two trees for every one tree they use to manufacture games.

Object:

Be the first person to get four of your color pieces in a row - vertically, horizontally or diagonally.

Set up:

Players determine what color they will be and they take all pieces of that color. 

Play: 

Players take turns. On your turn you have several options:

• Place a new piece in any empty space
• Place one of your larger pieces over any colored piece already on the board
• Move one of your pieces already on the board to any empty space or to cover any other piece on the board. Your pieces can cover your opponent's piece

As you cover another piece, try to remember what is underneath, as you may later want to uncover that pieces. If you can't remember what is underneath, once you lift the piece you may inadvertently help the other player win! Always keep an eye on what pieces the other player has left and keep your biggest pieces for strategic moves, as they can cover both medium and small pieces.

Try this:

• Work on spatial relations, visualization, visual memory, visual discrimination, visual closure, figure ground, manual dexterity, executive functioning skills, process skills, socialization skills, play and leisure exploration and participation 
• Start with a game of tic-tac-toe (3X3 grid) on paper if the individual is new to the game.Then move to the 4X4 grid on this game.
• Start with a simpler version - just place single pieces on the board, don't cover or move existing pieces, don't pay attention to the size, just the color.
• Talk out loud as you strategize to teach the individual how to plan moves.
• Allow the players to peek under a piece they want to move until they get used to the idea.
• Start by working toward a win in one plane only if the individual has difficulty watching the horizontal, vertical and diagonal planes all at once. Then move to the option of two planes, then introduce all three.
• Start with the game Gobblet Junior or Gobblet Gobblers, which are both 3X3 games to ease into this 4X4 game.

In the box:12 black pieces (4 sets of 3 ), 12 white pieces, game board (bottom of wooden box lid)
Ages 7+, 2 players

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