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With young children, it is especially important to discuss the colours or get
them to recognise and name the colours of the gemstones on the diamonds
and the coloured dots on the templates.
With a more experienced group, you can play this step first: before the child,
whose turn it is to take a fragment and put it down, takes a gemstone
fragment, the player to the left shows on the template exactly which
fragment the child is supposed to find.
If a child has difficulty finding a matching gemstone fragment, another child
can help!
How the game ends:
The game ends as soon as the children have been able to put together their
treasure.
Did the game end too quickly?
The children can then take
another template from the stack, put it down
and then keep playing as described above. This can continue until a template
can no longer be reconstructed because the gemstone fragments needed
have already been used up.
How many templates can the princes and princesses imitate?
The game is more difficult,
if the gemstone fragments are not put together
on the template, but next to it. It is important that exactly the same pattern
is reproduced as was previously built from the templates!
Variation with face-down gemstone fragments
For experienced players aged 4 and over
This game works as described above, but the gemstone fragments are
face-down at the beginning of the game. Now the children have to
remember which of the non-matching pieces have already been turned over
so that they are not turned over again.
In this version, a certain part can only be pointed to on the template if a
corresponding piece has already been turned over. The child who points can
then say: “We’ve already had that one. Can you remember where it was?”
Tip:
both versions of the game can be played equally well alone, but it is
more difficult if there is nobody there to help...
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