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Price | : | RM 110.90 |
Discount Price | : | RM 108.00 |
Points | : | 54,000 |
Save | : | RM 2.90 (2.614%) |
Brand | : | SMARTGAMES |
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Product Description
Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal Award 2018 (USA) National Parenting Product Awards Winner 2018 (USA) Parents’Choice Award Spring 2018 Games (USA): Silver Award
Winter is coming, so let’s go nuts!
Help the squirrels get ready for winter! Can you move the squirrels around and hide their acorns underground? “Squirrels Go Nuts” is a sliding puzzle game with 60 nutty challenges to test your skills.
Features
Age: For 6 to adults
Develops
How to play
Place the squirrels and acorns on the gameboard as shown in the challenge.
Slide the squirrels horizontally and vertically around the gameboard so all acorns are dropped into holes.
You have found a solution when all squirrels have dropped their acorn into a hole.
The Story Behind The Creation Of Squirrels Go Nuts!
As a child I lived close to a small forrest, but the only thing I ever saw were trees. Although I only knew the forest animals from pictures in books, they still fascinated me. In the past I made a lot of games with exotic or spectacular animals like penguins or dinosaurs, but like last year (Jump’In), I wanted to stay closer to home this year.
I like nature. Many children and adults only see it on TV, for example when watching the fantastic BBC-serie “Blue Planet”. But sometimes we forget that the most amazing creatures live in our own neighborhood. You only need to go outside to find them.
Winter is Coming
When I choose a theme, I look for two things: the theme should explain the main game rules and it should be visually attractive. Squirrels suited both requirements. I also like it when it’s very clear when a challenge is solved. This avoids that people need to check their solution. The concept for this game is straight forward: help the squirrels to hide their acorns underground. Although it’s a simple sliding puzzle with 2 L-shaped and 2 rectangular puzzle pieces on a orthogonal grid of 2x2, it has an extra feature: holes and acorns. When you move a squirrel with an acorn over a hole, the acorn will drop through the hole of the puzzle and will land in the hole of the game board. This game has some similarities with Titanic, although this game is much simpler and you can’t make any mistakes when you are playing. But you have to be careful not to drop your nuts in the wrong hole.
Example of a easy challenge/solution of “Squirrels Go Nuts” with 2 squirrels and the piece with the red flower
Drives You Nuts!
The downside of sliding puzzles is that many people try to solve it by moving the pieces randomly, because they can’t figure out that you can use logic to solve them. But of course you can. Before you start you can analyze the position of the holes and acorns. In most cases this will help you to determine which squirrel can fill which hole. After that, you only need to figure out how to move your squirrels to get there. The order in which you need to hide the acorns can be very important, because once a hole is filled, other squirrels can slide safely over this hole without dropping their own acorn.
Example of a hard challenge/solution of “Squirrels Go Nuts” with 4 squirrels
Game Rules
Before you start: Pay attention to the orientation of the game board, so that the holes are in the positions shown in the challenge. A quick tip: if you place the gameboard on top of the transparent lid you can prevent losing nuts!
After playing: You can store all the nuts inside the included transparent bag, which can be placed together with the puzzle pieces and challenge booklet on top of the game board and covered by the transparent lid. Without the bag, the nuts can fall through the holes inside the game board and could get lost. There is 1 spare nut included with every game …but not a second!