Avocado Smash

Avocado Smash - Have a smashing good time

 

 

Ripe 'n ready Avocado Smash is the most fun you'll have with an avocado. The plastic avocado storage box is a great way to create interest and holds the games only pieces - 70 avocado-themed cards. The cards are slightly textured, measure approximately 2 1/8" x 2 7/8" inches and fall into the following four categories: 60 Avo-number cards (numbered 1 through 15), 4 Change Direction cards, 4 Smash! cards and 2 Guacamole cards. Let's play!

Object:

Be the first player to get rid of all your cards.

Set up:

Shuffle the cards and deal them face-down and evenly between all players.

Play:

The first player takes his top card and places it face-up in the middle of the table. The next player turns his top card face up on top of that. Players take turns in this manner throughout the game. As each player lays a card he must count. The first card is 1, the second player counts his card as two, the third player, three, and so on. Players count to 15 and then start over with 1. As the cards are being played there are several times when all players must slap/smash the card pile. The last person to slap has to take all the cards and put them under his pile, thus taking it longer for him to go out. Here are the times you will smash the pile:

• When the number on the card matches the number that is spoken out loud.
• When someone plays a Smash! card.
• When a card that is played has the same number of avocados as the card right below it on the pile.

Additional rules are as follows:

• A Change Direction card is played - The direction of play is reversed. You must also start counting down from where you were. Counting up does not begin again until someone plays another Change Direction card, setting the game back into a clockwise direction.
• A Guacamole card is played - All players must yell Guacamole! The last player to respond has to take the pile of cards. However, if someone mistakenly smashes the cards on this turn, THEY get the pile instead.

Keep playing until someone is out of cards. They must then survive the next Smash! to be declared the winner. If on this last smash they are last to smash, they must take the pile and the game continues until someone runs out of cards and survives their last smash.

Try this:

• Practice shuffling and dealing cards.
• Ask the individual dealing the cards to hold the pile in his non-dominant hand while pushing the top card off with the thumb. Pick each one up from there with the dominant hand to deal.
• Take out the Change Direction cards if reversing is too difficult to understand, or change direction but continue counting up if players are not able to count backwards.
• Play to create interest before trying avocados or guacamole for the first time. 
• Play to create interest before making guacamole, taking the natural opportunity to cut, smash, mix, etc. Serve with hard, crunchy tortilla chips.
• Work on visual discrimination, bilateral coordination, manual dexterity, shuffling and dealing cards, in-hand manipulation, executive functioning skills, reaction speed, socialization skills, process skills, play and leisure exploration and participation

In the avocado: 70 game cards