Moooooo, Baaaaaa, Quack Quack, Neigh! (Orchard Quack Quack)

Member Name: mumto3

Product:	Orchard Quack Quack
Date:	28/10/08 (51 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Another well made childrens game from Orchard Toys

Disadvantages: Bit too long winded

My daughter was bought this game a couple of years ago for Christmas.

The game comprises of 30 cards with a coloured spot on one side and a picture of an animal (there is a cat, dog, duck, chicken, horse and a donkey) on the other. There is also a cup and a dice with coloured rather than numbered faces. The idea of the game is to place all the cards animal side down on a table. You then roll the dice and before picking up a card showing the same colour as the dice you make an animal noise. If this animal noise corresponds with the aimal on the reverse of the card you have won that card. The winner is the person to collect the most amount of cards. Some of the cards do feature all of the animals so it doesn't matter what noise you have made.

My daughter is four and she loves this game and regularly used to get it out to play while her younger brothers had their afternoon nap. She is at school now so thankfully we see a little less of this game. I say thankfully because I'm not a big fan. For me the game is far too long winded and takes ages to complete which means my daughter gets bored and goes off to do something else. The problem as far as I am concerned is that first you have to match a colour and after a few turns some colours have already gone. This means that you may not get a turn at all but even if your colour is there you still have to make the correct animal noise to win the card.

I find that my daughter likes to play the game without the dice and just make the animal noise and pick up any card. I prefer this as it makes the game quicker and more of a memory game. The game is good for colour and animal recognition and also improves the memory as to a certain extent you have to remember where the animals were.

Even though this is not one of my favourites it is well made and the cards are chunky and brightly coloured. It is fun to make the animal noises and we try and do our best impersonations which is obviously very funny for the children. My son is three but he hasn't taken to this game as well as my daughter and is less likely to choose it at game times.

Hours and hours of fun for all the family!

Summary: Entertaining and amusing animal noise game