Now that my youngest is 4, he’s able to grasp the instructions of most family games – and as a result, wants to play them all the time! Last week, we were very kindly sent a copy of Grabolo from John Adams to play and review, so we’ve given it a whirl and even took it to Grandma’s one day!
Grabolo Review
Grabolo is a really easy game to pick up. It doesn’t require many hours to learn the rules or set it, it’s pretty instant as games go.,
The pieces and dice come in a clear plastic tub that could fit in your handbag if you wanted to take it out with your for entertainment on-the-go.
How to Play Grabolo
Setting up could’t be easier, you just need to shake out the pieces onto a flat surface and spread them out. There’s nothing more to it!
The youngest player (in our house it’s Greg) rolls both dice first. The dice then tell you which shape to look for and the colour it needs to be. For example in the picture below, the tree image is showing along with the colour green and that means you’re looking for a green tree.
There’s more to the game than just grabbing all the pieces until someone wins. Players can steal pieces from other players, which keeps things rather exciting!
In order to steal, the dice has to show a piece that someone else has already got. The fun then comes from shouting out your guess of who has that game piece. If that player guesses right, they get to keep the piece.
If a player is wrongly accused of having the piece, they must show their hand to prove it, then the player who guessed incorrectly has to give up one of their own pieces!
Our Verdict on Grabolo
We loved it. Both kids play nicely with it and the youngest asks to play it all the time (we have a handful of daily favourite games now). It’s handy that it’s portable because it means we can bring the fun with us anywhere we go and it takes a matter of seconds to teach anyone we’re visiting with how to play.
It’s a fab, fun little game and it gets played a lot!
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Looks a great game that my kids would love too – great for packing in a suitcase too for holidays or weekend breaks!
Looks great fun for little 1s
I’m sure my youngest would enjoy this game. It looks simple, but fun
Great funto be had by all.
looks like it’s keep the kids amused for hours!
this looks great for all the family to play, kids would love
Looks good fun, we love family games.
How lovely to have a game that doesn’t come in a massive box that I need to find somewhere to store. And fun, too!
This looks like a great fun game
Looks a great game
Good fun game
This looks like a game my grandchildren would enjoy
Looks great fun for kids of all ages !
Lots of family fun
looks like a game all the family can enjoy!
A cool game , good for all ages, thanks for the chance
Looks a lotta lotta fun – havent heard of it before –
This looks like the kind of game we like to play at home.
looks good entertainment for young children
This looks like such fun, I would love to play it with my Son
I love this it looks great fun
Looks great
Love how colourful this looks. My little ones are 5 and 3 so this would be something that would appeal to them 🙂
Looks like great fun for the kids
Looks good fun and something g a bit different to enjoy
This looks a fun game to keep my grandchildren entertained!
Looks great fun
Looks fun and easy to play and explain, a game my children would love!
Looks like a great game that all my children can play together it wouldnt be a case of one being too young and the other being too old.
Looks like this is a lot of fun
This looks similar to a game we used to play with sweets!
Slightly different and a lot of fun. Thanks for the review and lovely photos.
Sounds a great game. I like that it can be portable.
looks like a fun game, my grandkids would love it
Looks fun
This looks great fun
looks like a great game my kids would love it
I love the look of this game and I know that my grandchildren would love to play it too.
Looks like a great game
My family would enjoy playing this game. It is one on birthday list for my son 🙂
This sounds a great family game that will help with learning colours and shapes.
This sounds easy and fun and not too long to set up
I like this, i had the misfortune of playing monopoly with the kids…omg that game goes on and on and only ends in tears, i vow them never to touch it until they are at least in college lol
this sounds a really simple fun game – a bit like the cad game go fish 🙂
It does look like a fun game, but I’m not a huge fan of games with tiny pieces especially with dogs and young children in the home. Great review but I think I’d give this one a miss
This looks like a lot of fun that my nephew would love.
I haven’t seen this game before – looks like fun
Looks a great game for all ages! Looks a very competitive game! 🙂 Thank you for the giveaway and Happy New Year!
Lovely game to play with the grandchildren.
This looks a perfect and fun game to help children with recognition and quick thinking
This game looks fun my grandchildren would like it
These games look like they would be loads of fun to play.
Look like a fun game
looks like lots of fun
Looks like fun and definitely a game the whole family would enjoy
This looks a great fun game to play doesn’t take a lot of setting up or having to explain long rules good for them learning their colours and shapes etc I love the look of it
My little ones would love this game. Looks like a great bordem buster.
Looks like good fun!
What a great game!
What a super game and interactive too. My children would love this.
looks like a nice family game
Looks a fun game
this looks like a lot of fun, my boys would enjoy it xx
I gave this Lucas for Christmas and we have played it every day since, love it!
this sounds like such a fun game and easy for little ones to grasp the concept of
Looks great fun
Looks great fun for the little ones and me
This would bring hours of fun to my little ones
Looks like a perfect game to take on holiday.
Fun for all the family. Just what Sundays where made for 🙂
What can I say but awesome prize