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Race to the Treasure is a cooperative tile-placement children’s game for 1 to 4 players. Players work together to create a path, collect 3 keys, and reach the treasure before the ogre does.
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Pro Teaches a good variety of concepts
Race to the Treasure introduces children to concepts such as making choices, prioritizing, and planning. Adults can guide kids to the best choices and explain them, which makes the game a good educational tool. There are many meaningful decisions to be made – where to place the tile, how to plan a route, picking between a key, an ogre snack, or the exit, etc.
Pro Very easy
Race to the Treasure is extremely simple and can be taught in a matter of minutes to anyone. The mechanic is elementary – you draw a tile and place it. The tile can be either a path or an ogre. If it’s a path, then you decide where to connect it to the road you’re building. If it’s an ogre, then it’s added to the ogre track.
When you gather three keys and reach the exit, everyone wins. If the ogre reaches the exit first, you lose.
Pro Fast to set up
Setting up the game is quick and easy. You place the board, shuffle the tiles, and then roll the two dice, one with a number and one with a letter, to determine where the keys and the ogre snacks are going to be placed on the 6x8 grid.
This also helps younger children with numbers and letters, so the setup can also be educational.