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Puppies, puppies everywhere: Peaceable Kingdom’s Lost Puppies game
By Jeremiah | December 09, 2011 | 14 comments / Comment now
In Lost Puppies, Peaceable Kingdom has delivered a move-pieces-around-the-paths game that will charm even the most jaded Candyland survivor, in part because there's a lot of complexity to when and how pieces are moved. This game was a massive hit with our daughter Zella, a wise old seven-year-old whose critical faculties melt to jelly at the mention of puppies, kittens, or anything else small and fuzzy and in need of hugs.
The goal of the game is to get a bunch of puppies home (they share the homes communally, and can travel to whichever one is convenient, as long as the one-puppy-per-household rule is respected). Puppies, as well as items to assist them (flashlights) and obstacles, numbered cards that must then be placed as barriers at set positions along the hub-and-spoke network of paths. Players take turns by turning over a card to discover whether it is a puppy, a mulligan, or a blockade, or moving a puppy along a path. Play is cooperative and it is quite possible to lose, although there are many ways to explain otherwise when your child is crying because you failed to get the puppies home and now they are wandering around lost in the park instead of in their nice warm beds.
You can pick up Lost Puppies on Amazon.com for about $13.
Win It! We're giving away a copy of Lost Puppies to one ZRecs reader. To enter to win, comment on this post and tell us about your favorite pet. This giveaway will end at 11:59 CT on Tuesday, December 13, we'll select a winner at random from eligible entries on December 14, and try to get the game to you by the holidays, although that's pushing it, isn't it?
The fine print: Giveaway open to U.S. residents 18 or older. One entry per person.
Disclosure: Peaceable Kingdom sent us this game to review. We will pass it on to someone else who can use it, or Z will pay us $13, which we will donate to charity. She doesn't choose to keep many review items, but this one could go either way. WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE PUPPIES?!
The goal of the game is to get a bunch of puppies home (they share the homes communally, and can travel to whichever one is convenient, as long as the one-puppy-per-household rule is respected). Puppies, as well as items to assist them (flashlights) and obstacles, numbered cards that must then be placed as barriers at set positions along the hub-and-spoke network of paths. Players take turns by turning over a card to discover whether it is a puppy, a mulligan, or a blockade, or moving a puppy along a path. Play is cooperative and it is quite possible to lose, although there are many ways to explain otherwise when your child is crying because you failed to get the puppies home and now they are wandering around lost in the park instead of in their nice warm beds.
You can pick up Lost Puppies on Amazon.com for about $13.
Win It! We're giving away a copy of Lost Puppies to one ZRecs reader. To enter to win, comment on this post and tell us about your favorite pet. This giveaway will end at 11:59 CT on Tuesday, December 13, we'll select a winner at random from eligible entries on December 14, and try to get the game to you by the holidays, although that's pushing it, isn't it?
The fine print: Giveaway open to U.S. residents 18 or older. One entry per person.
Disclosure: Peaceable Kingdom sent us this game to review. We will pass it on to someone else who can use it, or Z will pay us $13, which we will donate to charity. She doesn't choose to keep many review items, but this one could go either way. WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE PUPPIES?!
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No pets just small people. We would love a cat one day
Fun! My boys are both obsessed with dogs but we don’t have any pets! So, their favorite pet is our neighbor, Max, a beautiful collie that they help walk occasionally!
I’ve had pets in my family since I was an infant, so choosing just one “favorite” is hard. Two who are no longer with us but I think of fondly are my horse Beau and my dalmation Sadie.
Thanks for the chance. I’m sure my son would love this game!
Our favorite pet is our dog, Skye. She is such a cuddly puppy!
This game looks great!
My favorite pet...well...I was deprived and only had a goldfish named Abraham. Ha ha ha!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Ooh, fun. My favorite pet is my dog, Onyx. He’s getting older, but I still call him my puppy!
Favorite pet? Well, we’re a cat family around here, but my conscience won’t let me pick one of them as a favorite. May I just say “cat”? This game looks really cute; I think my six year old would dig it.
Lost Puppies sounds like a game kids would feel motivated to play. The goal is hardly esoteric: every kid can identify with finding their way home.
We love pet bunnies. Ours passed a few years ago, but now that the kids are a bit older we are thinking of bringing a new one into our home in the new year.
My favorite animal just happens to be a dog. The same can be said of my son who would this game!
My favorite pet is my chicken, violet. She follows my daughter and I everywhere when we are outside and likes to be petted.
Three of my favorite pets have been ones I don’t own.
A ferocious (to everyone else) dog (belonging to a neighbor) who loyally shadowed me everywhere in our neighborhood and gave me a lot of independence growing up.
An Australian shepherd who boarded temporarily with a relative that scared all their other pet sitters but loved me.
And our neighbor’s awesome mouser that likes to hang out in our yard and eat voles.
My favorite living pet is my sweet pup, Clover. But my favorite pets of all time are my dogs Mylah and Abbey who died almost a year ago. We miss them this Christmas.
My 5yo daughter would love this game! Our favorite pet is our Golden Retriever. She’s big, very hairy, and overzealous in her friendliness, and we think she is perfect.