Life is incredibly busy and it can be too easy to let quality time slip away, so I’ve always been an advocate of setting aside special time to spend with family. We try to do that with our family fun nights, which are usually on Fridays. We are always looking for original games that the children will enjoy, we love to change it up! That’s why I was excited to try two new games from Blue Orange Games, Dr. Eureka and Fast Flip!
Both Dr. Eureka and Fast Flip are brand new to the Blue Orange Games collection as of 2016 and we were happy to give them a whirl! Fast Flip is a matching card game that you play, well, fast! Each card has a bunch of fruits on the front and either a number or single fruit on the back. You flip one card face-up and one face-down. If a number is showing, the players need to identify which fruit is show that many times on the other card and grab the corresponding token as their answer. If the single fruit is shown, they have to say how many times that fruit appears on the other card and grab the token. The first player with the right answer scores the point.
The age listed on this game is 7+ but I found that my six year old really enjoyed it also! It was adorable to hear my two year old trying to count the fruits!
This is a great game for building skills like visual perception, processing speed, and focus and attention. My oldest struggles with attention at times but we found that this fast-paced game was perfect for her because things would happen so quickly. The older girls are having a blast playing Fast Flip with each other!
Dr. Eureka just has a look to it where you can tell it’s going to be an awesome game. The minute we got it, all of the kids were all over me to open the box immediately. In Dr. Eureka, players choose a challenge card and receive three test tubes with two balls of each color inside. The challenge card will show a formula consisting of three test tubes with different variations of six colorful balls inside. The goal is to transfer the balls from tube to tube without dropping them, positioning them how they are in the formula on the card.
Dr. Eureka is a pretty zen game to play by yourself or you can play competitively with up to four other people. It’s a problem solving game exercising fine motor skills, visual perception, focus and attention, and processing speed. The little balls are very slippery so it can be tricky and you can’t touch them! After a round is over, you don’t rearrange the balls either, possibly making it even trickier! I try to play in a more enclosed space so we don’t end up with little balls far underneath the couch or something!
(My four year old kind of cheating but at least she understands the concept!)
There are so many giggles and fun for Dr. Eureka and although it’s recommended for ages 8+ (and I can imagine so, as the balls are very small and not suitable for children who don’t know not to eat them!), I let all of my kids try with my supervision. It helps for the younger ones to learn colors and numbers anyway! One green, two reds, a purple, and so forth! We all enjoyed it!
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You can purchase Fast Flip for $12.99 here and Dr. Eureka here for $19.99!
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One (1) winner will receive both Fast Flip and Dr. Eureka!
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