The Lions Escaped! is a physical, quick, educational game that explores “matching” (or “visual discrimination”). Are these two things the same? And if not, what is different? It does so in a very physical and intuitive way, giving players plenty movement as they try to physically cage the escaped lions.
Every round, you reveal a card like “has a tail” or “has two ears”. Immediately, all at once, the players have to move their cage and actually “capture” one of the many lions on the table that matches!
The game explores matching prowess at two levels.
- The first game mode explained keeps it simple by making all cards lions. It is about matching features of the lion, such as having a tail or not.
- But it also has an expansion/variant that introduces new animals. It also tests matching the entire animal instead of features. Especially when combined with that first mode, you will get a fun game that challenges the skills of Apprentices.
For these reasons we’d call this a slightly more advanced “matching game” than something like T-Rex Tells.
Product Contents
Below is a summary of this product's contents. The actual product might have even more inside, but never less.
- Rulebook PDF (1 front page with information and story, 1 page base game, 1 page with upgrades)
- Material PDF (6 pages with cages in different sizes, 2 pages with Cage Cards, 4 pages with Lion/Animal Pawns)
- The raw assets (illustrations, layout file, etc) for you to view/edit. (As
.affiles, which you can open with the free Affinity software.)