Loopy board game free#

On your turn, you must either place 1 pink stone or 1 stone of your color on any empty space. One player owns the black stones, the other owns the white. Setup: place one pink stone on each of the board’s 6 corners. This game can be purchased from the Orchard Toys website here.Bobina is a game for two players, where each player tries to make a loop of stones, and prevent her opponent from doing the same. I don’t think my sons even realised that they were learning, and this is the best part for me. Orchard Toys have found the perfect balance of fun and learning.

I would recommend this and other Orchard toys to others. We absolutely love playing this game and it has become a firm favourite in our home. There is also a way detailed on the instructions leaflet to adapt the game for younger players. The winner is the player who collects five pieces and then manages to spin two splashing llamas to jump into the pool. My twins found this so amusing and were shrieking. Once you have reached the llama footprints you can then try and spin a splashing (not scared) llama on your next turn and jump into the pool. If you land on a scared llama then you must stay where you are. You spin the spinner and only move towards the pool if you land on a llama that is not scared. Once you have collected all of your loops you must then throw the exact amount required using the dice to land on a diving board arrow. Landing on an arrow space before you have collected all 5 loops means that the next player gets your turn and you do not collect a loop that turn. If you land on a pattern you already have, then your turn is over and the next player gets their turn. This really helps with your loops collecting task. Our second favourite part of the game was the fact that if you land on a llama face you can collect whichever colour loop you like. Play then continued with the aim being collecting all 5 differently patterned loops and placing them on your llama. If they landed on a llama patterned space they then picked up the relevant patterned loop and placed it on their llama. The youngest player, always fun working this out when you are a twin mummy, started by rolling the dice and moving around the board by the correct amount of moves. Game set up was quick enough that my sons did not get bored whilst waiting to play. Finally, we placed our playing pieces on their corresponding position on the game board. We then each found the matching llama playing piece and assembled it by slotting it into its base. We then each chose a matching llama (looking at the image on the box helped) and assembled our own llamas before placing them in front of us. We did have to punch out the inner part of the loops and discard them before our play started, however this took so little time and my sons love setting up games for the first time. We then placed the spinner and dice where everyone could reach them. Our first task was to assemble the game board from its various pieces and spread the hoops around the outside of the board pattern side up. The box usefully informs me that the game has been carefully designed to: My twins are aged 7 and therefore the perfect age for the 4+ recommended age range.

I love the fact that the game is Teacher tested. It looks appealing but also serves the purpose of providing so much useful information about the game. With two very excited children around, the contents of the box did not stay inside the box for long. Loopy Llamas arrived in perfect condition due to being so well packaged. I was therefore over the moon to be offered 3 Orchard Toys games to review. Even before the coronavirus situation, Orchard Toys games have been a firm favourite in our home.

Loopy board game free#

From the start of this experience I was keen to ensure I got the balance right between traditional learning, free play and games based learning. Like so many parents in this country right now, I am home schooling my children.