Player:
3 or more
Ages:
4-8
Place:
Table or any flat surface
Equipment:
1 deck of VoWac Alphabet Playing Cards
Ant
On Apple
is like Snap, a noisy, action-packed game.
Players must try to get rid of all their cards while calling out a
sequence of nonsense words. The
game teaches alphabetical order, so VoWac’s Above the Chalkboard
Display is suggested for your classroom.
Everyone picks
a card and the one who draws the card closest to “a” shuffles and
deals out all the cards, one at a time, face-down.
It’s fine if some players have more cards than others do.
The aim is to get rid of all their cards during the game.
The
player to the dealer’s left starts by laying any one card from his hand
faceup in the center of the table.
The next player to the left looks in her hand for a card
letter or catch phrase, that is before or after that card in alphabetical order.
If she has one, she lays it down next to the first card and shouts
“Ant!” Any other matching cards
in her hand are saved for later.
If she doesn’t have one, she passes, and it’s the next players
turn.
Play
goes around the circle with each player matching or passing.
The player who makes the second match yells “On!” and the player who makes the third match yells “Apple!” That cry ends the first round of play. Often, a player gets a match more than once in a single
round.
The
“Apple” player then starts the next round by placing a new card onto
the center pile. It’s a
good idea, when leading, for a player to start with a card in which he has
at least one match. The first
one to get rid of all his cards, wins.
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