Quack-A-Doodle Moo

Quack-a-Doodle-Moo

Set you dignity aside and get ready to play Quack-a-Doodle-Moo. It's going to get noisy in here. 

When I saw the box I was sure there was going to be cute animal pieces inside, but nope, just cards. The game consists of 96 animal cards (8 each for 12 animals) and 12 barn cards (1 for each animal).  The animals are rooster, cow, duck, snake, sheep, dog, cat, mouse, pig, owl, frog and donkey. Each animal card shows one animal and the sound it makes. The back of each card is printed with the game name. Each barn card shows one animal and the sound it makes and the back shows the picture of a barn. Here are examples:

 

The card on the right is the barn card. The other three cards are animal playing cards.

Object:

Be the first player to play all your cards from your hand.

Set up:

The number of animal sets you will use will depend on how many people are playing. Retrieve the cards you will be using and deal them out evenly, animal side down, between players. If there are extra cards, lay them aside. Mix the barn cards animal side down and each player will randomly pick one. Taking turns, each player will make the sound of the animal on their barn card. Remember who has what, this will be important later in the game. Then all players flip their barn card so the animal is no longer seen. 

Play:

Each player picks up his deck of animal cards with the animal picture down, and holds them in one hand. Players take turns. Flip the top card from your stack, flipping it outward so all can see the animal at the same time, and place it on a stack in front of you. Going clockwise, each player will flip one card from their stack until a card is flipped that matches an animal card already showing on the table. Both of those player will race to make the sound of the other player's animal that is hidden in his barn. The player who is first to correctly make the sound is the winner of the match. The winner gives all the cards in the stack in front of the to the loser of the match. The loser must take those cards, plus the stack of cards he has already played in front of himself, and add them to the bottom of the stack in his hand. Play resumes. The first player to play all the cards in his hand wins the game. 

Try this:

• Skip the game, just flip the cards and practice recognizing animals and making their sounds.
• Play a game of memory match by shuffling the cards and placing them in a grid, face-down, on the table top. Use fewer cards if 96 is too many. Let players pick up as many cards to make a set as they can. If you can remember two, pick up two. If you remember three, pick up three. However, if you make a mistake flipping a card, you will lose the whole set. Go for sets of two, three or even four!
• Sort the playing cards onto the barns. Start with fewer barns than 12 and increase as the player is capable of sorting more. Place the playing cards in a stack in front of the player and ask them to separate and pick up each card from the stack without sliding any other cards off the stack.
  
• Hold the cards in the non-dominant hand and separate them by pushing the top card off with the thumb. Take it with the dominant hand and play it.
  

In the box: 96 animal cards, 12 barn cards

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