Creating games becomes more of a challenge when you try to create a game that youngsters can play.  And the younger the player, the bigger the challenge.

I was trying to think of a simple card game that my three year old grandson could play.  I was stumped.

Then, as a group of us sat and talked one Saturday afternoon in a friend’s living room, someone noticed the twelve coasters on the coffee table.  There were six sea designs on the coasters — fish and seahorses and waves — and each design was on a pair of coasters.  So someone asked my grandson to find the matching pairs, and he proceeded to do so.

It reminded me of the card game, Concentration.  And that gave me the seed of an idea for a simple card game for toddlers.

Concentration is mainly a memory game.  When you flip over a Seven, you try to remember where the Seven was that Sue flipped over five minutes ago.  But toddlers have not yet developed the necessary memory skills to do this.  So I decided that in my new game, the cards that are flipped face-up remain that way for the rest of the game.  You don’t have to memorize where the cards are located because they are always there for you to see.  Read more... (522 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)