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It's a mad dash around the gameboard to get to the midnight snack. Make your bugs out of colored dough and away they go! Along the way, you'll get to splat bugs flat. But watch out! The bug you splat could be your own. Get your two bugs to the box of cookies first, and you win! Make 'em! It's a lot of fun to make your bugs with some Squish-It Dough and the BUG-O-MATIC! Move 'em! Quickly move your bugs around the gameboard by jumping over the other bugs! Mash 'em! Land on SPLAT! space and you get to squish some bugs flat with the Splatter!
For starters, it's a lot of fun to mold the dough bugs you use to move around the board
It's a mad dash around the gameboard to get to the midnight snack. Make your bugs out of colored dough and away they go! Along the way, you'll get to splat bugs flat. But watch out! The bug you splat could be your own. Get your two bugs to the box of cookies first, and you win! Make 'em! It's a lot of fun to make your bugs with some Squish-It Dough and the BUG-O-MATIC! Move 'em! Quickly move your bugs around the gameboard by jumping over the other bugs! Mash 'em! Land on SPLAT! space and you get to squish some bugs flat with the Splatter!
For starters, it's a lot of fun to mold the dough bugs you use to move around the board, and even more fun to squish them. But what makes Splat! a particularly excellent game is the well-designed game mechanics that are so totally suited to preschoolers. Two dice are used to move, one for each bug the player controls. If the square you land on is a splat square, it's time to squash some bugs. But instead of choosing whose bugs to squash, the player draws a Splat card and squashes any bugs on the same colored square.* That means you might well end up squashing a few of your own bugs, too. It's a good mechanic to help avoid a player feeling picked on--very important for creating a positive game experience for young players. As well, anyone with squashed bugs gets to mold new bugs, which takes a bit of the sting out of losing your bug and being sent back to the start. Squashed bugs remain where they are, to be jumped over by any passing bugs - a mechanic that helps keep the game short as more squashed bugs there are, the shorter the route to the cookies. A well-loved game that's definitely worth watching for.
*NOTE: There are 12 SPLAT cards - two each of six colours, so if the game you purchase is missing cards, you can easily adapt the SPLAT! choice to a die roll as well: get an unmarked die and use permanent markers to color the sides: red, blue, turquoise, orange, purple, and green.
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Release date: 1 January 1990
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