Category: Kid Games

Catstronauts

| T3d-1978

As the Commander of a team of Catstronauts, you’ll take on fast-paced missions to visit planets across the solar system and rescue poor helpless kittens!

From the designers of Kittin, Catstronauts is a family speed and sequence game where players race to match their numbered catstronauts to each of the planet cards in the correct order.

With 16 ‘meeples’ that can be customized with 16 unique cat face stickers, players can build their purr-fect team of expert Catstronauts.

Catstronauts comes in the same small tin you expect and love from Kittin!

Game Mechanics:

  • Pattern Recognition
  • Pieces as Map
  • Real-Time

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 4 Players
  • 10 – 15 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.00

Catch Me!

| T3d-1978

Catch Me! is a variant of the public domain game, Buttons.

A game involving rubber mice, dice, cheese tokens, and a miniature toilet plunger. There are several different Catch Me! editions which have substantially different components, but similar gameplay. The 2004 edition, for example, has a plastic cat shaped capture device that doesn’t resemble a toilet plunger.

A player rolls the dice and depending on their roll either tries to plunge the mice or not. Players holding the mice must pull their mice away before they are captured.

Game Mechanics:

  • Betting and Bluffing
  • Dice Rolling
  • Pattern Recognition 

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 7 Players
  • ~15 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.02

Candy Land

| T3d-1978

Created by Eleanor Abbott in the early 1940’s to entertain children recovering from polio and first published by Milton Bradley (now Hasbro) in 1949, Candy Land encourages young players to socialize, exercise patience, recognize colors, learn rules, and follow directions.

Players race down a rainbow-colored track to be the first to find the lost King Kandy at Candy Castle, but watch out for obstacles like the sticky Molasses Swamp! Start by placing your plastic Gingerbread Man (or other character marker) at the beginning of the track. Each turn, players draw a simple card and move by matching the color on the card to the next color on the track. Some cards show a named location on the board; players who draw these cards move forward or backward on the track to the named location. The game ends when the first player arrives at Candy Castle by reaching or moving beyond the last square on the track.

Game Mechanics:

  • Family
  • Racing

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 4 Players
  • ~30 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.15

Assault on the Castle

| T3d-1978

In Assault the Castle, players are fierce medieval Lords who want to destroy opponents’ castles by using fearsome siege machines. At the beginning of the game, players, by using cards, physically build their own castles upon a special basement mat. With regards to the building phase, there actually are no limits, as long as the castles can stand properly. During the game, players turn-by-turn draw siege cards that activate siege machines. In such cases, players will throw cards against their opponents castles, to make them fall.

The last standing castle wins the game!

Game Mechanics:

  • Flicking
  • Player Elimination
  • Stacking and Balancing

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 5 Players
  • 15 – 30 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.00

Boba Mahjong

| T3d-1978

Boba Mahjong is a 2-player mahjong variant card game using set collection and rummy mechanics. In the game, players create sets of three cards during their turn. After creating a set, the player keeps one of the cards as an ingredient card. When a player has five sets of ingredient cards, the round ends. Players will use the best six ingredients to make their boba drink and collect points based on the freshness, smoothness, complexity, and presentation of their drink. The game will continue for several rounds until a player has 30 or more points, and the player with the most points wins the game!

Game Mechanics:

  • Hand Management
  • Set Collection

Game Specifications:

  • 2 Players
  • ~30 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.00

Blasting Boxes

| T3d-1978

A simple style euro game suitable for kids and families. Each player needs to get as many points as possible.

In the game, players assume the roles of warehouse workers, each of them needing to stack his/her shelf with as many boxes as possible without letting the boxes break. Whoever gets the most points becomes the new store manager.

There are some rules, bonus points, and special combo cards that allow you to tackle your opponents or increase your own score.

Game Mechanics:

  • Hand Management
  • Pattern Building

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 4 Players
  • 20 – 40 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.00

Connect 4

| T3d-1978

Connect 4 is a well known vertical game played with “checkers” game pieces, although it is more akin to Tic-Tac-Toe or Go Moku.

The board is placed in the stand to hold it vertically and the players drop game pieces into one of the seven slots, each of which holds up to six game pieces, until one player succeeds in getting four in a row, whether horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

Game Mechanics:

  • Abstract Strategy
  • Pattern Building

Game Specifications:

  • 2 Players
  • ~10 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.20

Clue: the Simpsons

| T3d-1978

Chief Wiggum finds wealthy industrialist Charles Montgomery Burns dead, and it looks like foul play. Wiggum rounds up six likely suspects: Homer, Marge, Lisa and Bart Simpson, Krusty the clown and Waylon Smithers. The fingered suspects, dressed up as their favorite Clue character, try to figure out who bumped off Mr. Burns. To win, you must determine the answers to these three questions: Who did it? Where? and with what weapon?

Game Mechanics:

  • Deduction
  • Paper and Pencil

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 6 Players
  • ~45 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.65

Brandon the Brave

| T3d-1978

Want to be as strong, brave and glorious as the knight Brandon the Brave? To become a knight, all knaves first have to master regal tasks and prove that they have good intuition. Your task is to seek out giants, dragons, witches, and other dangers!

In Brandon the Brave, the player who can skillfully place the field tiles next to one another, thus mastering the tasks, will be the lustrous champion at the end of the game.

Game Mechanics:

  • Tile Placement

Game Specifications:

  • 1 – 4 Players
  • ~10 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.06