Bingory

Bingory - A beginners bingo/memory game.

With a 4 x 4 grid, images of a young child's toys, and four tiles for each image, this is a very basic bingo/memory game for beginners. The box and pieces are all wood. The images on the tiles are teddy bear, tricycle, ball, car, doll, train engine, ABC blocks and rocking horse. The bingo cards measure 3 1/8" square and the tiles measure 1 5/18" square.

Object:
Be the first to fill your bingo card with matching tiles.

Set up:
Give each player a bingo card. Turn the 32 tiles face down on the table.

Play:
In turn, each player with turn two tiles face up. If they are a match and the player has the image on his bingo card, they stack the two tiles on top of each other and on the same image on their bingo card. If the two tiles do not match, or if they match but the player does not need them, they turn the tiles face down and their turn is over. Turn the tiles over in the same spot so that other players have a chance of remembering where they are if they need them. Play until someone fills their bingo card with matching tiles.

Try this:

• Skip the game and play alone. Turn all tiles face up on the table and fill one bingo card at a time, making matches from the face up tiles on the table. Then turn the tiles face down and play again, making matches as in the instructions above before transferring them to your bingo card.
• Set the grid up so that the tiles are squared, but turned in different orientations, so that players will have to recognize matches when they are not both going the same direction.
• Set up the grid for a game making sure that some of the tiles are not right-side-up (but still face-down). As the player choose these tiles, ask them to turn each piece in-hand to orient it right-side-up.
• Put the pieces away by stacking one piece on top of another, then picking up both pieces in a stack and putting them on top of a third, then picking up all three and placing them on a fourth, etc. How many can you hold in your hand before having to drop them back into the box?
• Make a pattern with the tiles, such as ball, blocks, trike and ask the player to make the same pattern. Or ask them to continue the pattern until they runs out of tiles. Ask them to name the items verbally to help them remember the order.
• Sort the tiles into eight stacks, by image (there will be four of each).
• Work on visual discrimination, visual memory, visual form constancy, manual dexterity, in-hand manipulation, executive functioning skills, process skills, socialization skills, play and leisure exploration and participation
   

In the box: 4 bingo cards, 32 tiles, cloth bag

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Fast Flip

Fast Flip - Focus on fruit while you flip fast.

Fast Flip reminds me of my favorite card game, Spot It!, which is one of the games I will pay full price for. BlueOrange had the U.S. rights to Spot It! until Asmodee purchased them in 2015. Up until then, Asmodee had the rights to Spot It! everywhere in the world except the United States. After the acquisition of Spot It! in 2015, Asmodee said they had big plans for the game. I have been watching for new versions since then, but have found none. In 2016 BlueOrange introduced Fast Flip. Similar, but quite different from Spot It!, Fast Flip requires more than just finding a match on a crowded card.

Each card in Fast Flip has 15 pieces of fruit on one side, and a single piece of fruit or a number (1-5) on the other side (see image above). There are five types of fruit in total: strawberry, raspberry, pineapple, orange, banana. Each round token has the same number on both sides, and each shaped token has the same fruit pictured on each side.

There are instructions for three different games included, but basically you will play with two cards per turn, one with the multiple fruit pieces side up and one with the number or single fruit piece side up. If it is a number, you will quickly scan the card with multiple fruit pieces and find which fruit is shown the same number of times as the number. For instance, in the image above the number 5 card is showing and there are five pineapples on the card next to it. If it is a single piece of fruit instead of a number (raspberry in the image above), you will quickly scan the other card and count how many times that piece of fruit is shown. For instance, in the image above, the raspberry is shown three times on the mixed fruit card.

GAME 1 - Flip It

Object: 

Be the player with the most points scored over several rounds.

Set up: 

Shuffle the cards, making sure that the multiple-fruits sides are all facing down. Place the pile in the middle of the players.

Play: 

Flip the top card so that the multiple fruit side shows, place it next to the pile. The top card on the pile will reveal either one fruit or a number. All players play, quickly scanning the multiple fruit card for either the number of a particular fruit, or which fruit is represented a certain number of times (whichever is revealed on the top card of the pile). The first player to call out the correct answer scores one point and the round is over. Flip the next card and repeat. The game ends when there is only one card left in the pile.

GAME 2 - Token Grab

Object: 

Be the first player to have four tokens at one time.

Set up: 

Place all ten tokens face up, in any order, in front of all players. The deck will be set up and used the same as in the GAME 1 above.

Play:

Play according to the rules in GAME 1 except instead of calling out the answer, grab the token that represents the answer. Keep the token in front of you during the game. Other players may grab it from you if they need it to represent an answer in future rounds. You also may keep it if you are the first to need it in a future round. Collect four tokens this way.

GAME 3 - Token Line

Object:

Be the player with the most tokens after 10 rounds.

Set up:

Line up the ten tokens, in any order, in the middle of the players. The tokens will determine which match you will be looking for, instead of the cards deciding. Prepare the deck as in GAME 1.

Play:

Flip over the top card and look at the multiple fruit side. Using the token on the far left, find the match. The first person to spot it gets the token. Play until all tokens have been collected.

All in all, I like SpotIt! much better. JMHO

Try this:

• Skip the need for speed. Play any of the games alone. Eliminate the scoring for game one and play through 10 cards needed for games two and three.
• Choose just one token and play through as many cards as you want looking for only that one thing. Get used to the game this way before playing.
• Play through just the number cards or number tokens first. Then play through all the single fruit cards or single fruit tokens second. Practicing each one alone may be easier to learn before putting them together and having to flip back and forth.
• Skip the game. Look at one card after the other, multiple fruit side, and count how many there are of each kind of fruit. Does touching each piece of fruit as you go help you stay on track and remember what you have already counted? Can you count without touching each piece as you go?
• Work on visual discrimination, figure ground, visual form constancy, eye-hand coordination, manual dexterity, process skills, executive function skills, socialization skills, play and leisure exploration and participation 

In the box: 54 cards, 10 tokens
 
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