Hoot Owl Hoot

Hoot Owl Hoot! - A cooperative board game for kids.

Hoot Owl Hoot! is an award-winning, cooperative game with a kid's theme that emphasizes working as a team, not competition. The goal of the game is to help the owls all get safely back to the nest before the sun comes up.

The board has two tracks - one for the sun to travel as it rises and one for the owls to travel to get back to the nest. The sun travels across the top of the board, west to east, and the owls travel on the spiral multi-color track. On each of the 50 cards will be one image, either a picture of a sun or a circle of color.

Object:

To win, the team must get all the owls to the nest before the sun reaches it goal.

 

Set up:

Place the board in the middle. Shuffle the game cards and deal each person three cards, face-up. Place the rest of the cards near the board. Put the sun token in the box that says SUN START (under the moon), and place the owls in the starting circles at the beginning of the spiral - three owls for a beginner game, four for intermediate, and six owls for an advanced game. 

Play:

Taking turns, players will either move one owl forward or move the sun forward one square. On each turn, the player will play either a color or a sun card. If he is dealt or draws a sun card, that must always be played first. Then his turn is over. If the players chooses to play a color card he is allowed to move any one of the owls forward to the next circle of that color. If that circle is already occupied by an owl, he is allowed to fly over and go to the next circle of that color. This is a strategy to move owls forward faster, as an owl can skip over as many occupied circles as necessary. Since all players can see each others cards, players can plan strategies, such as everyone playing the same color cards, to get to the nest faster. After a card is played (either sun or color), the player draws another card so that he always has three choices in front of him. If all the owls get to the nest before the sun reaches the end of its track, the team wins. If not, the team loses.

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Try this:

• Work on simple strategy, decision making, problem solving, visual discrimination, spatial relations, visual tracking, manual dexterity, working together, taking turns, following directions, play and leisure exploration and participation

In the box: Game board, 6 owl tokens, 1 sun token, 50 sun and color cards.

Ages 4+, 2-4 players

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