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You are tasked with finding treasure chests and solving calculation problems to be able to pick them up. The problems are posed by parrot, mermaid, dolphin or pirate. The tiptoi pen guides you through the game, poses the problems and helps to self-check your answers in all four levels of difficulty.

At the start you tell the pen how many are playing and then you choose the game and the level of difficulty; the games get more challenging and more tactical when more than one is playing.

Game 1 uses numbers form 1-10 for addition and subtraction and you must find previous and successive numbers. Game 2 uses numbers from 1 to 25 for adding, subtracting, doubling and halving. Game 3 uses numbers 1 to 100 with the same operations as game 2 and Game 4 also moves in the range of numbers 1 to 100 with all four basic calculation operations. For each game you use a different set of treasure chests. Always one of the characters names the chest he wants; the parrot tells you how many steps you can move; if you reach a chest that is wanted to touch first the chest and then the character with the pen. Sometimes the parrot poses special tasks or the mermaid plays a mini game with you, “photo safari”, “fishing for numbers” or “jungle expedition” that help you practice mental arithmetic and the times table and lets you win jewels. For those games the fish in the ocean and the trees on the island are used.

Calculations in the guise on adventures in the pirate genre so beloved by children; the most important knowledge that is transported is that knowledge is fun, playfully supported by the pen.

Age: 5-10

Time: var

Designer: Reiner Knizia

Art: Dynamo Ltd., Kinetic

Price: ca. 21 Euro

Publisher: Ravensburger 2010

Web: www.ravensburger.de

Genre: Educational adventure game

Users: For children

Special: 1 player

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Four different levels of difficulty and number ranges

Educational content attractively connected to the topic

Transports knowledge and enjoyment of knowledge

tiptoi pen not included, files free for download

Compares to:

All other games in the tiptoi range

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0