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Brown Bear - Panda Bear, What Do You See?

A memory game loosely based on Eric Carle's Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? series of children's books.

2–4 players—ages 3light difficulty

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What is Brown Bear - Panda Bear, What Do You See?

A memory game loosely based on Eric Carle's Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? series of children's books.

2-4 players are either brown or panda bears; the pandas are looking for a set of endangered animals, while the browns are looking for a set of more mundane wildlife (albeit a bit weird, such as the blue horse). Each turn a player flips one tile from a center pool. If it fills an opening in their predefined set, they keep it and take one (and only one) more turn. If not, they turn it back over. First player to fill their whole set wins.

The two turn limit makes this more suited to very young children than traditional memory games, as there's never too many recently-flipped tiles to track. Most of the time there's either zero or one, since rejected animals are usually quickly picked up by the next player in line.

Claims that the game helps with sequencing skills are based on the endgame, when the winning player calls out each of their animals in order, aping the book series' style. (The animals can be picked up in any order.)

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