Description
This product contains the board game Court of King Triangle. That name will ring familiar to anyone who has also enjoyed our book The Shapesquare Stories, as King Triangle is the big villain there! If you haven’t, don’t worry, you can easily play the game without knowing the story behind it.
With 1 page of very simple rules, this game tests basic shape knowledge, and polygons in particular. One person plays “King Triangle” who tries to reduce corners all the time, hoping to turn all palaces into triangles. Everyone else plays the “Rebelshapes” who try to add corners all the time, hoping to turn palaces into circles. By playing simple combinations of shapes from your hand, this fight goes on until all palaces have been won by one side, and those who’ve captured the most palaces win the game.
Now you already know the game! While playing, you get constant opportunities to recognize shapes, say their names, and count how many corners they have. There’s also a wide variety of palaces to play and expansions to enable if the base game becomes boring.
Here’s a nice extra rule to try once you’ve played the base game: “When you remove a Palace, draw 3 more cards and give them to any player(s). They’ll simply have more hand cards until the moment they dip below 4 again.”
Another nice variation brought to our attention is the following: “Give each player their own Palace. On your turn, you may always play one or more hand cards to your own palace, and they will stay there until you fulfill its pattern. (Unlike all other palaces where you have to play the entire thing at once in the same turn.)”
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Product Contents
- Rulebook for the game (1 page base game, 1 page expansions and variants)
- 9 pages of material (3 with Palaces, 2 with polygons, 4 with Shape Animal Cards)
Fine Details
| Detail | Value |
| Activity Structure | turn-based |
| Age | 4 |
| Categories | shapes |
| Duration | 20 |
| Language | en |
| Level | 1 |
| Multiplayer Mode | one-against-many |
| Player Count | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
| Subject | mathematics |
| Textless | true |
Subject: Mathematics
The curriculum is split into six main subjects that align with your typical school subjects.
This resource is part of the Mathematics subject. Below is a summary:
This subject teaches Mathematics from first principles to calculus. Level 1 explores the basic skills needed before you do any counting or see any numbers (such as grouping and comparing objects). Level 2(+) can then introduce numbers, counting, addition, multiplication, and more.
Faction: Gamiverses
This resource is part of the Gamiverses Faction.
But that's just one way to teach and explore its topic(s)!
You can always move to a different Faction to find a more effective way to teach the same topic.
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Charm: Board Game
This product is part of the Board Game charm.
Visit its main page to learn more about what that means. Below is a summary:
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: My First Shapes
This resource is part of the My First Shapes topic (or "spell").
Just like colors, shapes provide an easy way to categorize the world around us and break it into smaller parts. This helps understand the world better: now you can explicitly ask your parents for the square thing, for example. It also enables teaching crucial skills such as grouping and combining later.
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