Kyra's game
Kelli Traaseth
Thought I'd share with you all what Kyra, my 6 yr old daughter, has been up to.
I've been hearing her ask other kids if they want to play her new card game. Its called Mystery.
I hadn't really thought a whole lot about it. Well, the other day she comes and asks me if I'd like to play. "Sure!" I say. So we sit down and she deals out 7 cards to each and says not to look at them. She then puts the pile of remaining cards in the middle, facing up. She says we can't look out our own cards but we have to hold them up so the other person can see them.
Then you play kind-of like Go Fish. Look at the other persons' hand, are there any pairs? If there are you get to take them for a point. Then next, you pick a card out of your own hand, still can't look at your hand. Look at the one you picked, does it match with any in your opponent's hand? If it does you take the one out of the opponent's hand, if not put it back and draw the top card off the pile. It is now the next person's turn. You keep doing this until someone runs out of cards, then the game is done. If you are left with cards in your hand you have to deduct pairs from your collection. Then, the person with the most pairs wins!
It was pretty fun, I thought it was just a little step up from Go Fish as far as challenging.
Can you believe my little 6 year old thought this up??
Its so funny we keep saying, "you can't look at the card, that's why its called A Mystery!" <g> Like a commercial or something!
Kids are amazing. Now if I had been pushing phonics or other things on her, she might not of had any of these creative thoughts!
Cool!
Kelli~
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I've been hearing her ask other kids if they want to play her new card game. Its called Mystery.
I hadn't really thought a whole lot about it. Well, the other day she comes and asks me if I'd like to play. "Sure!" I say. So we sit down and she deals out 7 cards to each and says not to look at them. She then puts the pile of remaining cards in the middle, facing up. She says we can't look out our own cards but we have to hold them up so the other person can see them.
Then you play kind-of like Go Fish. Look at the other persons' hand, are there any pairs? If there are you get to take them for a point. Then next, you pick a card out of your own hand, still can't look at your hand. Look at the one you picked, does it match with any in your opponent's hand? If it does you take the one out of the opponent's hand, if not put it back and draw the top card off the pile. It is now the next person's turn. You keep doing this until someone runs out of cards, then the game is done. If you are left with cards in your hand you have to deduct pairs from your collection. Then, the person with the most pairs wins!
It was pretty fun, I thought it was just a little step up from Go Fish as far as challenging.
Can you believe my little 6 year old thought this up??
Its so funny we keep saying, "you can't look at the card, that's why its called A Mystery!" <g> Like a commercial or something!
Kids are amazing. Now if I had been pushing phonics or other things on her, she might not of had any of these creative thoughts!
Cool!
Kelli~
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In a message dated 8/1/03 1:40:50 PM, tktraas@... writes:
<< Can you believe my little 6 year old thought this up?? >>
That is a cool game!
Maybe look up Rio Grande Games and write and see if they're interested. (You
can find it with Google.) They're publishing various card games, but would
know where to refer you if that's not something they'd be interested in.
They do original games and reprints/translations of German (mostly) games.
There's another games publisher called Cheapass games you might contact if
she's interested in maybe publishing it.
Sandra
<< Can you believe my little 6 year old thought this up?? >>
That is a cool game!
Maybe look up Rio Grande Games and write and see if they're interested. (You
can find it with Google.) They're publishing various card games, but would
know where to refer you if that's not something they'd be interested in.
They do original games and reprints/translations of German (mostly) games.
There's another games publisher called Cheapass games you might contact if
she's interested in maybe publishing it.
Sandra
Jenny E.
From: "Kelli Traaseth" <tktraas@...>
Thanks for sharing it with us.
Jen :o)
Mom to Beck (7) and Dane (4)
> I've been hearing her ask other kids if they want to play her new card game. Its called Mystery.Wow! That is a really cool game. I'm going to tell my boys about it and see if they will play! I'm so impressed that your daughter is only 6!
Thanks for sharing it with us.
Jen :o)
Mom to Beck (7) and Dane (4)
Kelli Traaseth
You can actually publish them?? Cool, I'll check it out.
My other dd, Abbi(8), said something along those lines. In her words,
"Kyra could earn something like $5,000 or something!" <g> Cute!
I kind-of wondered if it actually was her idea, but I don't think there is
anything like it. There is some deductive reasoning in playing it because
at some points you know what cards you have but you don't know where they
are, cause you mix them. And then you get rid of some and you could keep
track of that.
Abbi and I just got done playing a round of it and we started talking about
percentages/probability. "I have 50% chance of getting a card that matches
yours because I have 4 cards and I know 2 are the same as yours." Then on
to 66% chance. Abbi didn't much like the game at first, it was weird
holding cards facing out, ackward shuffling them that way. But in the end
thought it was pretty cool.
Kelli~
My other dd, Abbi(8), said something along those lines. In her words,
"Kyra could earn something like $5,000 or something!" <g> Cute!
I kind-of wondered if it actually was her idea, but I don't think there is
anything like it. There is some deductive reasoning in playing it because
at some points you know what cards you have but you don't know where they
are, cause you mix them. And then you get rid of some and you could keep
track of that.
Abbi and I just got done playing a round of it and we started talking about
percentages/probability. "I have 50% chance of getting a card that matches
yours because I have 4 cards and I know 2 are the same as yours." Then on
to 66% chance. Abbi didn't much like the game at first, it was weird
holding cards facing out, ackward shuffling them that way. But in the end
thought it was pretty cool.
Kelli~
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Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Kyra's game
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> In a message dated 8/1/03 1:40:50 PM, tktraas@... writes:
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> << Can you believe my little 6 year old thought this up?? >>
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> That is a cool game!
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> Maybe look up Rio Grande Games and write and see if they're interested.
(You
> can find it with Google.) They're publishing various card games, but
would
> know where to refer you if that's not something they'd be interested in.
> They do original games and reprints/translations of German (mostly) games.
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> There's another games publisher called Cheapass games you might contact if
> she's interested in maybe publishing it.
>
> Sandra
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Kelli Traaseth
Glad you like it Jen. I always like a chance to brag up my unschooly
kids! :)
If you have any questions, if my description wasn't clear, feel free to
e-mail me. Its hard to write directions! I remember that from writing
class in high school. <blech>
Kelli~
kids! :)
If you have any questions, if my description wasn't clear, feel free to
e-mail me. Its hard to write directions! I remember that from writing
class in high school. <blech>
Kelli~
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Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Kyra's game
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> > I've been hearing her ask other kids if they want to play her new card
game. Its called Mystery.
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> Wow! That is a really cool game. I'm going to tell my boys about it and
see if they will play! I'm so impressed that your daughter is only 6!
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> Thanks for sharing it with us.
> Jen :o)
> Mom to Beck (7) and Dane (4)
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Ren
"It was pretty fun, I thought it was just a little step up from Go Fish as far
as challenging.
Can you believe my little 6 year old thought this up???"
I'm impressed!! Sierra is six and her games don't even make sense yet! Cool.
Ren
as challenging.
Can you believe my little 6 year old thought this up???"
I'm impressed!! Sierra is six and her games don't even make sense yet! Cool.
Ren