Cameron Iwan
United States
Douglas
Nebraska
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There's a serious deficiency in session reports for some excellent children's games on the Geek, so I'm setting out to create at least some activity for these games, even the most simple and childish ones.
I recently got Dancing Eggs for my youngest son's third birthday. He cracked it open like the rest of the presents, stared for a few seconds at what appeared to be a carton of eggs, and moved on to the next gift. Yes, I was sad that this "carton of eggs" didn't elicit even so much as a smile or an iota of interest (other than the obligatory "Thank you"), but this dejection didn't last long. A few days later, after most of the excitement of his other gifts had worn off; I brought the carton back to his attention.
And thus began a wonderful afternoon of three silly boys bounding about the kitchen floor. Joined by his six year old brother, the three of us set the carton on the middle of their appropriately-elevated snack table and I briefly explained what the pictures on the dice meant. After a few practice runs – and plenty of practice egg drops and scrambles – we started a game.
A single session report for Dancing Eggs doesn’t really do justice to the game. There’s so much grabbing and running and jumping and yelling that I could barely take a pause after each action to write down what happened on each turn and get player reactions (no, I didn’t actually do this  ) I remember that the first game went horribly, and the two youngest silly boys were neither silly nor happy to try it again any time soon. However, at the urging of the oldest silly boy, we tried again with very lax rules about egg placement and the subsequent dropping of eggs from those places.
Once you get a feel for how coordinated and dexterous your young ones are in this game, you just make a suitable handicap for each player and call those the rules. Once we got this into place, we ended up playing this for over an hour (at about five minutes per game, that quite a few “sessions”). In the end, each of these three silly boys won every game, and a once-neglected birthday party became a smash hit in our house.
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Yoki Erdtman
Sweden
Södertälje
Handsome devil huh?
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Sounds like a great session. I got this tucked away in my closet for my 4-year old's birthday in two weeks. I can't wait to give it a try.
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