Pickles to Penguins! Travel Edition -The Quick-Thinking Picture-Linking Party Game – for 2 or More Players Ages 8 and up by Outset

Look at the pictures and make a link between one in your hand and one on the table - sounds easy but without using colours and sounds it can make for a great imagination, quick thinking, quick talking game. Can be played cooperatively for the younger players or as a race to finish with older players. We love it and the more the kids play it the faster the thinking becomes, although we do veto some links are they are too much of a stretch!!

Well according to my 7 year old, they're both great diggers. We play a modified version now, as it's a bit complicated for the youngest of my bunch, but the concept is really simple. You play the cards, call out the ways that they're similar and collect cards to see who can get the most by the time the cards are all gone. It can be played anywhere, like on the bus in Demver during prime time traffic, and the cards are sturdy enough to withstand grubby hands. It can be a quick game, or more grueling. It all depends on how you want to play. The best part is seeing how it makes my kids think outside of the box. It's teaching them and they don't even realize it, which is a huge win in this Homeschool mama's book! The pictures on the cards make game play easier for my non readers, making it a useful tool for parents with kids of all ages. This was a great purchase, definitely worth the money!

Good concept.....but in my family people stretch the connections. Need a referee. Fun to hear the odd links that they come up with, though.

Great fun with grandkids. Gets them thinking.

I am a speech therapist, and this is a great way to end the week with my students. You have find a similarity between two items, and sometimes you need to be very creative. They are portable, sturdy, convenient and fun!

You may want to rewrite the rules to play the game. Making connections between randomly dealt cards was challenging for my students.

I have teenagers. Enough said. Getting them to play games, let alone have FUN playing a game, is virtually impossible. We were going on a short trip, and I ordered this on a whim because I was looking for something that would be easy for my autistic 14-year old to participate in. Little did I know that it would be my other two teens who would play this for over an hour. They love teasing each other and pushing each other's buttons, and this game did the trick. We were all laughing so hard, my daughter was crying and I had to "pause" the game so we could all reset. The more ridiculous the connection, the better. A bird and a hairbrush? "A bird would pull hair out of your hairbrush to put in its nest." A car and a dinosaur? "You could outrun a dinosaur in a car like they did in Jurrasic Park'." Are those "legal" connections? Probably not, but the creativity and sheer ridiculousness of the answers it what makes this a fun and unique game.

The game comes with instructions for different games. My granddaughter and I modified the instructions to make it easier for her.The pictures are bright and colorful.I like the game but rarely have someone here who wants to play games so I’m trying yo make up a solitaire game. Maybe the manufacturer could include one in future printing.