Unlock! Kids Irish Folklore Game Review

Unlock! Kids Irish Folklore

Players: 1-4

Play Time: 20-60 minutes

Ages: 6+ 

My husband and I have enjoyed escape room style games for years, but I had never tried one of the kids versions until recently. We have now completed all the stories from Unlock! Kids Irish Folklore, so I thought I would share our thoughts.

Gameplay:

The whole Unlock! series play as escape style puzzles you're trying to solve. You use cards and some other components to find clues, leading you to more cards and objects until you complete the entire puzzle. The kids version has no words, just numbers to find. There are also some additional hidden numbers which lead you to star cards, giving you points at the end rather than advancing the story. This box has three different adventure decks with two stories to solve each. The difficulty increases as you progress through them. There is also a hint book and an online walkthrough for if you need a little help.

Thoughts:

My 6 year old, who can sometimes be a reluctant game, absolutely loved playing these! He would have done multiple stories in a day had his sister's naps allowed it. He loved combining the objects with the cards to uncover new cards as well as finding the hidden numbers. 

The components were so nicely done. I was impressed at the creativity and variety that came out of games centered around regular cards, translucent cards and some cardboard pieces. Sometimes we were building three dimensional objects and sometimes combining cards in unique ways.

The illustrations were beautifully done, telling a story in a unique way. However, the lack of words was a mixed blessing. It makes it more accessible for non readers and it really lets the artwork shine, however, there were a few spots where, even with the online walkthrough, I wasn't sure how they arrived at a particular solution. That didn't seem to bother Archer in the slightest. 

We both really enjoyed the experience together and will gladly play other adventures from the series in the future! In fact, I liked it so much, I got an adult version of the Unlock! game to play with my husband and teen!

Game provided for content creation purposes on my Instagram account, but the thoughts are entirely my own. I also enjoyed it enough to find it worth sharing on here.

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Tot School: St Patrick's Day

Here are some of the Tot School activities we have done recently. Juniper is 2.5

A play dough tray had some gold nuggets, shamrock buttons and cookie cutters.

We did a dot page from Making Learning Fun

St Patrick's Shape Tracing (print here). She's not great at it, but she enjoys it.

We also did some line tracing (print here).

Shamrock pattern matching

Measuring activity. This was her first time doing an activity like this and she did well, not perfect.

This was her first time digging star pony beads out of  therapy putty. She ended up loving it! We did not do the questions that went with this activity because she's so young.

St. Patrick's Graphing

I got out her activity board with some green straws, pipe cleaners and pony beads.

This was also her first time doing a 10s frame activity. I don't know that she fully understood the point, but she did great counting.

Roll and Cover printable from Totschooling. We did some of it before she got distracted. It wasn't much of a challenge for her though.

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