Train Pairs

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Age 5+

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10 minutes

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Language

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Maths

Examine the content of the boxes

Load the train with matching pairs

Game Description

In Brief

Learning objective

By playing Train Pairs, players can practice both upper and lower case letters, colours, and numbers from 0 to 99. The game also challenges the players’ abilities to sort different pieces of information and keep an overview of the situation at hand.

Game objective

By playing Train Pairs, players can practice both upper and lower case letters, colours, and numbers from 0 to 99. The game also challenges the players’ abilities to sort different pieces of information and keep an overview of the situation at hand.

Detailed Description

Gameplay

At the beginning of the game, an empty train with room for a total of 16 boxes, i.e. eight pairs, arrives at the station. At the same time, eight ships arrive, each of them carrying a box. By touching the boxes with their fingers, the players can remove the boxes from the ships and the now empty ship will sail away and make room for more ships.

Checking the content of the boxes

Removing a box from one of the ships does not reveal the content of the box. The players will only be able to see the content when the box is dragged and placed in one of the four corner zones. The players will have to go through the content of every box and sort it in pairs in order to have enough pairs to fill up the train and get it to leave the station.

Loading the train

The players load the train by dragging the boxes onto the eight wagons. Each wagon has room for two boxes. The content of these boxes must match.
The train will not leave the station until each of the wagons of the train is fully loaded and contains boxes with matching numbers, letters, or colours. If the players have solved their task correctly, the train will leave the station, and shortly after, a new empty train will enter the station. Ships with new boxes will also appear, and a new round can begin.

Detailed Description

Settings

Numbers

It’s possible to choose which numbers from 0 to 99 (divided into groups of ten) should be used for the numbers game. For example, if the players only want to play with the numbers from 11 to 20, they simply need to press the empty box next to where it says “11-20” to select these numbers for the game. When a checkmark appears in the box, this means that this group of numbers has been selected. Since the numbers from 0 to 10 are automatically pre-selected before the first game, the players just need to press the box next to “0-10” if they do not want these numbers to appear in the game. When the checkmark disappears, this group of numbers has been deselected. The fewer of the number groups selected, the easier the game will be to manage for the players.

Letters

Here, it’s possible to choose between playing with upper case or lower case letters and between playing with handwritten or digital letters.