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Mr. Tom

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Mr. Tom is a funny little kraken sitting on a bubble of water and helping you with doing sums. The game features fish or groups of fishes showing numbers between 1 and 10, the bigger numbers are depicting bundles of fish. Those bundles with values between 6 and 10 are present once per number and are laid out face-down, the other numbers from 1-5 are present two times each and these numbers or fishes are placed face-up. You place Mr. Tom on his blue water bubble. Then you draw a face-down fish and put it on one of Mr. Tom’s arms. Now you take the necessary number of fish from the open-faced ones to make up the sum that equals the number visible on the fish already hanging on Mr. Tom and put them on the other arm. If you calculated correctly Tom’s arms are level and he looks straight ahead; if not he squints and his arms are at different levels.

For a game of two players no special rules are given, but for instance you can let one child pick up a face-down number and let it make up the sum; then you set aside the fish used to make up the number and let the other child make up the same total from different numbers still on the table. The numbers in the game are present often enough for this; you can make up each total from 6 to 10 at least three times from the smaller numbers in the game.

In any case, Mr. Tom is a very attractive and demonstrative educational games for making up sums up to 10; the weighing is a fantastic way to control the result and at the same time an unnoticed introduction to the way equations work. And motor skills are trained unobtrusively, too, at the same time.

Players: 1-2

Age: 4+

Time: 10+

Designer: not named

Art: not named

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Noris Spiele 2012

Web: www.noris-spiele.de

Genre: Educational game for sums

Users: For children

Special: 1 or 2 players

Version: multi

Rules: bg de en fr hu it nl pl ro

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very attractive educational game

Simple sums

Weighing sums is a cute way of result control

Very short scant rules

Compares to:

All learning games for sums up to 10, first game with weighing sums

Other editions:

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