Wisdomantics Game Review & GIVEAWAY! (12/24) #Wisdomantics

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About the game:

For 2-4 players, ages 12+

Wisdomantics–New King James Version (NKJV) is an interactive DVD board game for players of various faiths who desire to gain the vast wisdom of King Solomon. Wisdomantics-NKJV utilizes the proverbs of Solomon and blends chance, knowledge and strategy to create a fun experience while you learn! The game’s intent is to bring individuals together to learn how to cope with numerous situations in a fun and relaxed environment. Inside the box you’ll find 2 interactive DVDs with 400 questions, score cards, blessing cards, and more!

My Review:

I played Wisdomantics with my kids who are 7 and 8 years old.  We were able to easily set it up and get the gist of how to play it.  The rules that came with the game were a bit confusing, but I was also sent a revised set of rules that straightened out the confusion for me.

The idea of the game turned out to be fairly simple.  On your turn, you choose a question from the DVD and have 30 seconds to answer.  If you get it wrong, the next person has 20 seconds to guess and the third person has 10 seconds.  If you get it right. you get to choose an "Advancement" Card and move your token around the board by what it says on the card.  (The second and third guesses only get to receive a Color Tile.  They don't advance on the board.)  Along the way you can earn Color Tiles that you place on your Temple Scorecard.  There are a few ways tiles are earned, but the main goal is to complete your Temple Scorecard first to be the winner.

I really enjoyed the game myself and the challenge of it.  I also thought it was a neat way to learn verses from Psalms.  The kids, on the other hand, found it too challenging.  I had expected it would be hard for them as they were 4-5 years too young for the recommended age to play.  We ended up working together as much as possible on each turn.  I still hope to have the chance to play with my husband soon and see what he thinks!  I can see it being fun for him between the challenge of it and most likely beating me...he's a bit competitive. ;-)

 Another aspect that I liked about the game was that the questions were on the DVDs.  I really liked that we didn't have 400 cards and having to set different times for each guess...the DVD automatically did it for us.  I do wish that we didn't have to click through all the numbers each time it was someone else's turn though.  It would be nice if the game automatically moved on to the next question.  Not a huge problem by any means, but it slowed the game down a bit.

A really neat game if you're looking to try a new faith-based game this Christmas!  Be sure to check out the Wisdomantics game website to learn more about it and try to win the game below!

Buy It!
Wisdomantics can be purchased for $29.99 at the Wisdomantics website.

GIVEAWAY!

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'D' is for Dog

I think learning about the letter 'D' is the most fun we've had so far...check out what we Did! :-)

The kiddos' Dog word wheels. The words on the wheels this time were: Dog, Doctor, Dragon and Dish. (We Didn't Do anything with Dragon and Dish, since I couldn't come up with anything, so we used the word Duck instead!)

We played Dog games.

Cuddled with Dogs During reading time.

Read about some Dogs.

Made Dog puppets while singing about a special farmer's Dog named "Bingo" ;-).

Moving on to Ducks! We read about some fun Ducks!

Then played a Duck game.

And with the word Doctor, we played a popular Doctoring game.

Then we played Dress-up as Doctors!

Morgan Doctoring Blake.

Blake as the Doctor.

Blake Doctoring Morgan.

And in the Bible we learned about Daniel. Morgan also had her church program practice that night, which is called "That's So Daniel!"

Part of the reason we had so much fun with the letter 'D' was all the games we played, but my favorite part was how creative the kiddos got while playing Doctor Dress-Up! While I was being Doctored, I Discovered that Micky Mouse is in my eyes. Not only is he in there, but he had made himself at home by getting all cozy under a blanket! I may have never known my eyes were home to a special Disney mouse if Morgan hadn't been my Doctor that Day. ;-)

A Dr. Seuss Birthday Celebration!!

I was reminded :-) by Alexia at The Mommy Rambles how fun it might be to celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday this year, so I did some planning and this is what the kids and I spent the day doing:

We had to do some reading of Dr. Suess books of course, with the help of some the Dr. Suess characters. (Only seven books and it had to be over an hour of reading combined....phew!)

We had some fun with food too! This is just a small pancake, sliced strawberries and whipped cream.

In my searches for Dr. Seuss foods, I kept seeing Thing 1 and Thing 2 cupcakes, but I couldn't imagine making a batch of 24 cupcakes so we could have 2! So I came up with these instead! It's just raspberry Jello in clear plastic cups with white and blue (dyed with food coloring) whipped cream....much better on the waistline too! ;-)

More Cat in the Hat hats! These are a Ritz cracker, vanilla frosting and gummy Lifesavers. We had to get creative and try different colored hats too :-)
I found these worksheets at http://www.seussville.com/. The first one was a simple addition worksheet, so we used colored goldfish ("One fish, Two fish, Red fish, Blue fish") to visually do the addition. Then we did a word search, maze, dot-to-dot and a couple coloring pages.

Of course there had to be games at a birthday party! We played "Three Cats in a Row" (Tic Tac Toe) and Morgan beat me!! LOL!
We also played "The Cat Says" (Simon Says) and Morgan and Blake do awesome at what they're told to do whether that cat told them to do it or not-lol. I guess we need to practice this one a little more ;-) (Here the kids are flapping their arms.)
We also had to have a craft! We made a Truffula Tree forest ("The Lorax") that I had seen on the Frugal Family Fun blog. We just gathered some twigs from the yard when Morgan got off the bus, then painted some yellow stripes on them. I had already colored batting with markers (I'd suggest using roving if you have it...the marker doesn't stick the batting fibers and comes off on your hands.) Then we glued the the 'Tuft' batting to the twigs and stuck them in some Play-Doh on a lid to a container.

The kids played quite a bit with this and even got the Lorax in there to protect the forest :-)

After we finished all our activities, I happened to glance at the CEIVA frame and it was showing 'This Day in History' at the time:

Pretty neat to learn a little more about Dr. Suess!! :-)

Besides all that, we also caught 'The Cat in the Hat' specials on PBS before Morgan left for school. Most PBS stations were running 2 hours of 'The Cat in the Hat' in celebration of Dr. Seuss's birthday.

It was truly a super fun day to celebrate!! :-)

Don't Break the Ice!

I love finding activities to do with the kids that really gets them excited and makes them laugh. They received the game "Don't Break the Ice!" for Christmas and we took it out to play it for the first time the other day. Not only were they excited and laughing, but they couldn't wait to get the game back together, so they could 'play' all over again. (The thing is they really didn't care to 'play' the game, they just liked knocking the ice out. Each time they 'played', I would spend 5 minutes putting it together for the 10 seconds it took them to 'break the ice' again.) You can see how much they loved 'playing' by the looks on their faces...

Morgan is a little on the blurry side from jumping up and down :-)

I'm even excited to play it again! I loved hearing them laugh and squeal at the simple act of knocking out a little block of ice. It might not be a very educational game, but it is a ton of fun!