Lucky Ducks
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Customer Review: Terrific Fun for The Youngest Gamers
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great game for the really young kids (two and three-year olds) who want to be part of your family game night. Bright yellow duckies "swim" around in a circle on a little plastic pond while the game emits a loud (and non-stop) quacking chorus. Each duck has a red- green- blue- or yellow-colored sticker on his "underneath" so the child chooses up a duck as it passes, and checks the color of the sticker. If the child has a blue card and picks up a blue duck, she places the duck on her card. If it's not a match, the child places the duck back on the pond (fun too as all the other little duckies are still squaking and swimming). The first child to get three matches wins.I give four stars for educational value because this is a fun way to teach two and three year olds very basic gaming skills -- like taking turns, losing gracefully (well, with the three year old set winning with grace can be a work-in-progress too!)and playing fairly.
This game is also good for very elementary strategy skills like remembering which duck you've already picked up and trying to look at the sticker color on the duck without letting anyone else get a peek.
The game is incredibly durable -- ours had very heavy use the first few years (my then-three year old used to love to just lay on the floor and watch the duckies go around without even playing the game). Though my kids are older now, they love to get this game out when we have younger visiters.
Description of Lucky Ducks
Lucky Ducks is a sound-and-motion version of the typical color-matching game. An adult will need about 15 minutes to prepare the game (installing batteries, labeling ducks, and punching out cardboard nests), and then it's time to start selecting lucky duckies. A quacking sound effect is heard as the motorized board moves the 12 ducks around the pond. The first player to pick three ducks with colored stickers, which match the color of their nest, is the winner. The game has a couple of drawbacks: there is no volume control, so kids must figure out where their ducks are by watching the previous player replace them on the pond, and there are no game variations. --Pam LauerBoard Games Toys
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