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To play Aquarius with children as young as 3:
Remove all action cards from the deck. Each player picks a goal, which is placed face up in front of them. Place a 4 panel card in the center of the table, and give each player 3 cards. Take turns drawing and playing (just like in the full game) until a player gets enough panels of their goal connected together equal to the youngest players age. If necessary, play with your "hand" of cards face up on the table the first few times, before teaching your child to hold their hand of cards secret from the other players.
Over repeated playing, as the child masters this very simple game (and as they get older) you can increase the challenge by first assigning a random goal card, and then teaching them to keep their goal card a secret, and eventually adding the action cards back into the game one at a time.
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David: do you think this will sound daunting to parents?
is my wording good? should we try listing the order to add the action cards back in? is there an obvious difference in difficulty between the actions - or is the important thing only adding one at a time?
Also - does this really work with 3 year olds? or should we say as young as 4 ?
Thank you everyone for your input!
-Kristin
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