Morphology - The Hilarious Guessing Board Game
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Mindprint Expert Review
Pros
- The games are fun for a broad age range with both easy and hard words and a relatively short duration.
- Game encourages important skills such as flexible thinking, reasoning, and quick speed as well as social skills like cooperation and patience.
- Teaches children to look at basic objects, such as stones, wooden blocks, rings, as the foundations for much more complex objects.
Considerations
- Like similar games, there can be disagreements about what was a fair gesture or guess which can result in disagreements.
- Students with weaker processing speeding or flexible thinking could get discouraged if not playing with supportive teammates.
- The game can feel repetitive using the same objects over and over and limited variation in the words.
Mindprint Expert Review
Morphology is an enjoyable family game that provides a visual and creative twist on the traditional game of charades. Players divide into two teams, and the first team to get 8 correct answers wins. Games are relatively short which can be good for students with weaker attention. Teams take turns with one player on the team picking a card and acting as the team Morphologist (TM). The Morphologist silently reads the clue on the card, typically a category word such as action, animal or food. The Morphologist uses the objects provided in the box (colored cubes, stones, string, a little wooden person, etc.) to get teammates to guess the word before time runs out. The rules change slightly depending on a player's roll of the die. This game provides a fun way for students think flexibly both with the objects they are given and the words they guess. The objects are a simple to allow for creativity, but they can make the game feel a bit repetitive, especially when the guess words are similar. The cards have both easy and hard words, so families can play with a broad age range. Overall, a good family game choice that can be fun for a range of ages and cognitive strengths.
Fun
Engaging for the Mindprint recommended age range
- Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
- Visually appealing to children in the target age range
- Adults would enjoy playing with a child
- For electronic games, gives positive or encouraging feedback
- Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
- Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option
Easy to Use
Understandable for children in the Mindprint recommended age range
- Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
- Student should be able to use independently after first use
- Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
- Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
- Does not require excessive set-up time after first time use
- Can be fun as a single player game
- Multi-player game which fosters collaboration or cooperation
- Well-made for the cost
- For electronic games, can play without sound
- For electronic games, allows user to save work
- For electronic games, voice/sounds are appealing and pronounces words properly
- Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
- Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
- Overall - Easy to use
Manufacturer Description
The hilarious guessing game where creativity wins! Get ready to make sounds, act out words, and race against other teams to see who can guess the mystery word! Pick a card... Create a word.... Animate the pieces.... Guess and Win!4 or more players