Roll for It!

Note: This is a short really early legacy review before I started posting longer form review in our Facebook Group.

Having spent all day in the car driving into central London to buy a new large dining table (I joked with the salesmen to fit the new 15th Anniversary Ticket to Ride On… he wasn’t impressed) we came home and decided to play 2 games on our old table.

Therefore Games 13 & 14 of the “Bailey School Holiday Boardgame Marathon (Christmas Edition)” played by Jack(6), Toby(3), Katie acting as the Ringer for Henry and myself are “Roll for It” and “Calico.

Roll for it is a simple dice game where each player has 6 dice. There are 3 cards in the centre of the table each with dice on and a point value. The idea if you have to roll your dice and then place them on cards with matching dice faces. If you get all dice faces on a card you win that card and get the point value. First to 40 wins. It’s a super simple game great for practising number recognition as well as probability.

The normal version comes in Pokemon style red and purple variants and can be joined together for more players. These are £13ish The one pictured here is the deluxe version which comes in one tin and has both versions for maximum players and is around the £30 mark. Storing everything back in the tin though at the end is an absolute nightmare and could have been much better.

Everyone in the family likes Roll for It and I would definitely recommend it as a game you could also play quite happily with the grandparents.

“Calico” is a tile-laying game where you make a quilt out of hexagonal pieces and try and attract cats and sew buttons onto your quilt.

A big plus for Calico is it comes with family and enthusiast rule sets. Here we played the family rules. You draw a tile from a pool of 3 and you are then looking to either place it to have 3 touching colours of a certain arrangement or a number of touching patterns to attract a cat. Cats and buttons are all worth points and in the end, the most points win. The enthusiast rules give other ways to score from 3 bonus tiles but the game plays well without.

The game helps with colour and pattern recognition and it is a firm Bailey family favourite.

The pieces are of exceptional quality and the whole thing is a high-end product.

As a transition game from younger kids games Calico works perfectly. Big thumbs up.