Age: 3 and Up Game Time: Approximately 30 minutes Number of Players: 1-6 players.
Description: Shape up your color skills with Colorama! Colorama requires no reading and features four different quick-play game variations making it a great game for many ability levels.
How To Use It: Colorama features four game variations for endless fun:
Discover Colors & Shapes. Shape pieces are distributed to all players, players take turns putting pieces on the game board, the game is over when all shapes on the game board have been covered.
Discovering the Dice. To set up, the shape pieces are placed on the game board. To play, players take turns rolling the color die and collecting shape pieces that match the color they rolled. The game ends when there are no pieces left on the board.
Colorama. To set up, the shape pieces are placed on the game board. To play, players take turns rolling the color and shape die. Players collect pieces from the board that match both the color and shape that they rolled. The game ends when there are no pieces left on the board.
Colorama for Experts. To set up, shape pieces are distributed to all players. Players take turns rolling both the shape and color dice. Players find the piece that matches both the color and shape that they rolled and places it on the board. The first player to get all of their pieces on the board wins!
What’s in the box:
1 game board
40 game pieces: Five shapes (circle, square, triangle, hexagon, & trapezoid) in four colors (red, blue, green, & yellow)
1 wooden color die
1 wooden shape die
1 set of detailed instructions
Adaptability:
Colorama is an early learning, no-reading game designed to introduce preschoolers to basic board game rules, such as turn-taking, patience, dice-rolling and piece movement as well as colors and shapes.
The game has quality components and is designed to encourage children to compare and arrange, and to practice manual dexterity and logical thinking.