Asmodee | Dobble Minions | Card Game | Ages 6+ | 2-8 Players | 15 Minutes Playing Time

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Dobble Classic is marketed as for ages 6 plus, though our three-year-old had no trouble playing it last year. You can make it easier for younger players by having older opponent close their eyes for a few seconds as each round commences, giving the younger ones a head start. There is also a Dobble Kids edition for age four plus. Can 2 people play Dobble?

Kids will love testing out their matching skills with this fast-paced 5 Games in 1 Minion Game from the Dobble range. Before joining the content team at Mumsnet, Jenny worked as a journalist for newspapers, radio, TV and b2b trades magazines for over a decade. She is also a bestselling sci-fi author (writing as J M Briscoe) and parenting blogger. We recently took our set to a family BBQ where my six-year-old quite happily enjoyed an equally-matched game with her Oxford-graduated twenty-something cousin. How many card games - or board games for that matter - can deliver the same game play experience? The Well: Basically the inverted version of The Towering Inferno; all shuffled cards are distributed between players face down with the last card face up in the middle. All players flip the top card of their pile at the same time, with the first to spot the match between their card and the middle card discarding their card in the middle. This card then replaces the communal card and players must turn over the next card in their pile to reveal a new possible match - the player who gets rid of their pile first wins.

There are also different spin-off games available, such as Dobble Connect and, if you're headed to the beach, a special waterproof Dobble as well. They're based in convenient locations including supermarkets, newsagents and train stations. Plus they're often open late and on Sundays.

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The actual game

The anarchic henchmen from the Despicable Me franchise join the Dobble fun! Between any two cards, there is always exactly one matching symbol. Will you be the first to spot it in the addictive game of speedy observation? I imagine that the reason they decided to have 55 rather than 57 cards is that once the cards are dealt and the face up card is removed this leaves 54 cards to be dealt rather than 56. 54 is of course exactly divisible by 2 and 3 (plus the much less useful 6, 9, 18 and 27) which are likely to be the most frequent number of players, whereas 56 is divisible by 2 and 4 but not 3 (plus the much less useful 7, 8, 14 and 28) so it does allow for 4 people, but this may be less frequently required than 3 [Benford's law may help suggest how more likely 2 players would be than 3?]. Yes, it is for 2 - 8 players. There are even some solo version of the game, too. What are the benefits of Dobble?