Cat & Mouse

Cat & Mouse - No reading required.

Cat & Mouse is a simple board-type cat and mouse game with a lot of kid-appeal. The pieces are hard plastic. The mice will travel over the 10 spaces on the round board, following the directions on the spaces and collecting cheese pieces as they go.

Object:

The object of the game is to be the first person to collect five pieces of cheese. 

Set up:

Set the game board with the large piece of cheese in the middle of the players. Stand the ladders against the cheese. Each player takes a mouse and places it in one of the rounded grooves on the top of the cheese. Players then take turns dropping their mice into the hole at the top of the cheese. There are slides inside the cheese that end up on different squares on the board. Where ever each mouse lands is the square that player will start the game. Place the cheese pieces in a pile near the game. This is called the cheese bank.

Play:

Taking turns, throw the die and advance that many spaces clockwise on the board. A picture on that space will tell you what to do, no reading required. Here are the options:

• Take one piece of cheese from the cheese bank.
• Take two pieces of cheese from the cheese bank.
• Give one piece of cheese back to the cheese bank.
• Move Max the cat to any square of your choice. If another player has a mouse on that square, he must give a piece of cheese back to the bank.
• Climb the ladder to the top of the cheese. Drop your mouse through the hole. When your mouse has landed on a square, follow those instructions.

Try this:

• Set up the cheese bank before the game by lining up all the pieces in a row in the same direction. Put one or two pieces of the cheese in the player's palm and ask them to bring it to their fingertips and turn to orient before adding to the row.
• Put the game away by picking up the pieces of cheese, one at a time, in one hand and squirreling each piece in the palm before picking up another. How many pieces can be held without dropping?
• Put the game away quickly by holding the box under the edge of the table and, with a curved hand vertical to the tabletop, collect and push the pieces off the table into the box. Aim and move carefully so none hit the floor.
• Cup the hand and roll the die in the palm for several seconds before throwing.
• Work on visual discrimination, manual dexterity, spatial relations, socialization skills, process skills, executive functioning skills, play and leisure exploration and participation
  
  
  In the box: Round game board with cheese, 17 small pieces of cheese, 3 ladders, 4 mice in different colors, 1 Max the cat figure, 1 die
  Ages 5+, 2 players
   

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