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Passporto

United Kingdom

PassporTo was already on show at International Toy Fair Nuremberg in 2011 and 2012, not it is also available from a German distributor - it is a small tin shaped like a suitcase, containing material for entertaining a family while travelling, offering information on the country of destination.

The content is identical for each edition: A big poster shows the respective country, in this case the United Kingdom, with cities and sights. On the back of the poster you find small entertaining games - an image to color in, a labyrinth (here a Fire Engine must find its way to a burning house, in reference to The Great Fire of London) as well as a spotting game where you search for differences in two pictures, a sheet of stickers and a template for connecting-points-to result-in-an-image.

This is supplemented with a double-sided, 60-pieces puzzle and 45 trivia cards. Those cards feature Cities, General Knowledge, Transport, Culture, Attractions for Children, Country-specific Traditions, Tourist Sights and Sports. As there are five cards for each topic you can also play a variant of Happy Families, called Collect 5, collecting five cards for a set.

The little suitcases are currently available for Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada (also with an Air Canada Logo), Spain and Europe, the company website also mentions editions for Hong Kong, Israel und USA.

Nothing very unusual, but a very nice idea that you simply put in your pocket and take along, there is a lot of useful and interesting information on the cards and waiting or travelling is nicely bridged, especially when travelling with children.

Players: 2-6

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Chani Lehana

Artist: not named

Price: from the distributor

Publisher: FamilyOnBoard 2012

Web: spm-marketing.de

Genre: Travel, trivia

Users: For families

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Attractive and practical packaging

Interesting information in compact form

Nicely interpreted standard mechanisms

Compares to:

Features standard mechanisms in new combination and packaging

Other editions:

For at least eight more countries

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red):2

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 1

Action (dark green): 1