We were given the Flower Game game when Zoe was 3 and she still loves playing it 3 years on. You can play with 2-4 players and is one of our favourite games to play as a family. It’s a quality wooden game which looks as good now as it was when it was new. You do need to read the rules to be able to play the Flower Game but once you’ve got it this is great fun and easy for kids to remember.
There are 2 dice to throw – one for a colour and the other either a colour, type of move or caterpillar piece. The pieces are all magnetised and the stalks poke into a triangular garden. The steal is my girls’ favourite move because they feel so naughty doing it – you get to steal any piece you like from an opposing player. Players make up flowers with either a single colour for it’s petals or one petal in each colour. There’s some strategy involved but younger players can easily keep up without that knowledge. You also make a caterpillar together when the dice falls on a caterpillar – when caterpillar is finished the game ends. Because the ending and dice throws are random there’s a good chance for any player of winning – thereby leveling the playing field between ages and stages of players. The player with the most completed flowers and additional pieces after that wins. The girls also like playing gardens with all the pieces after we’ve played a couple of rounds.
