Description
Shufflespeak is a series of 4 language games designed specifically for pre-readers, though some clever expansions make it interesting for any age, for any period of time.
The game includes a large number of “packs”. Each pack contains one word, with one phoneme per card. As the name of the game suggests, you give everyone a random pack, they shuffle it, and then place the cards before them.
Most likely, the players now have a word in front of them … that doesn’t make sense. It’s all jumbled-up! It says /n/ /ĭ/ /t/ /s/ /ĕ/ instead of /t/ /ĕ/ /n/ /ĭ/ /s/ (tennis).
That’s the challenge!
On your turn, the Guardian (parent/teacher/someone present who CAN read) simply reads what’s in front of you, no matter how silly. Then you’re allowed to swap two of your cards in an effort to make it make sense. As soon as you’ve recovered the correct message, you win.
With this trick the players don’t need to be able to read themselves. They don’t even need to know all the words yet—you learn new words by playing. As long as one Guardian is present who reads out what’s in front of you, the game will work.
Once you’ve played this a few times, you’ll have grown in language skill and find the base game very easy. No worries! Try any of the expansions, such as the one that adds a random “noise” card that’s wrong and makes it harder to figure it out, or one that adds special actions you can take to help out. If still too easy … you can simply move to packs with longer words ;) Figuring out an 8-phoneme shuffled word, with possible noise interfering, would even challenge adults.
We are very proud of these games and hope they provide an example of how to make absolutely every part of learning an effective game!
The other versions in the series are about shuffled Words/Sentences, Syllables and Letters.
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Product Contents
- Rulebook for the game (Intro/Overview page, 1 page rules base game, 1 page upgrades, 1 page expansions, 1 page mega-expansion to play forever)
- Base Game Material PDF (one in color, one in grayscale)
- Expansion Material PDF (one in color, one in grayscale)
- The Material Generator (open in any browser) to generate your own PDFs with your preferred settings and new cards
Fine Details
| Detail | Value |
| Age | 4 |
| Categories | phonemes |
| Duration | 20 |
| Language | en |
| Level | 1 |
| Player Count | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 |
| Subject | language |
| Textless | true |
Subject: Language
The curriculum is split into six main subjects that align with your typical school subjects.
This resource is part of the Language subject. Below is a summary:
This subject teaches the English language! From an Apprentice’s first utterances to being able to read any book and write their own stories.
Faction: Gamiverses
This resource is part of the Gamiverses Faction.
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Charm: Board Game
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Board Games are simply physical games (as opposed to video games). They could be played using cards, without a board, with players physically moving around, anything.
Our board games follow the rule that your first game should only require a single page of setup + rules. Most of them are cooperative multiplayer experiences.
Spell: Phoneme Awareness
This resource is part of the Phoneme Awareness topic (or "spell").
This step teaches Apprentices to cut syllables into their smallest parts: individual sounds called phonemes.
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