Top Trumps Giveaway

There are plenty of companies knocking on the door of JK Rowling's door wanting to obtain a license to tie their products to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter that she created.  So you have to admit it is impressive when she reaches out to a product herself to encourage it to incorporate a Harry Potter theme.  That's just the case when it comes to the Top Trumps card game.

Teachers in the United Kingdom have been encouraging students to play this card deck game that incorporate a variety of themes ranging from animals to wizards since the 1970's as a fun way to improve children's literacy and numeracy skills.  In fact, British author Rowling herself grew up playing Top Trumps as a child.  Based upon her admiration for the game, she contacted the company about working with them to create Harry Potter card decks.  Now that is a nice endorsement!

Top Trumps now has a variety of card decks themed around various Harry Potter movies including Prisoner of Azkaban, Half-Blood Prince, Goblets of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, and Deathly Hallows Part I + Part II.  Each card in one of these Top Trumps' Harry Potter themed decks shows a character from the featured film.  The card contains a picture of the character, a paragraph describing a highlighted scene, and skill rankings for the individual in categories such as cunning, courage, magic ability, temper and wisdom for use in playing the game.  We have the Deathly Hallows Part I and Part II Top Trumps decks and enjoy playing them together as a family over and over again.

HOW TO PLAY

Teachers have been recommending Top Trumps for decades because while playing the game each colorfully illustrated card used boasts facts and figures that get kids reading and using numbers so that they are learning while having fun.  It is an easy-to-play game that is sure to captivate children's attention.  Recommended for ages 4 and up, my tweens are always enthused to play Top Trumps. With more than 60 themed card decks to choose from parents are sure to find one that is sure to delight most any kid.



While a number of Top Trumps' decks are pop culture themed including Marvel's Avengers, Big Bang Theory, Despicable Me, Fast & Furious, Star Wars ... and of course Harry Potter, they've just introduced four brand new decks for 2018 that put a focus on STEM with card topics that mimic the big questions kids ponder outside of the classroom.  Take a look at the Sensational Science, Terrific Technology, Extraordinary Engineering and Peculiar Problems Top Trumps card decks.

GIVEAWAY

To share my family's enthusiasm about playing Top Trumps, A Geek Daddy has a great giveaway! Visit Top Trumps' website and check out all their card decks because the winner can choose THREE of their favorite $9.99 priced packs to get for FREE as their giveaway prize!  Just complete the rafflecopter entries below before May 1, 2018 to throw your name in the hat for a chance to win.  One random winner will be selected from all eligible entries. If you win just let us know which 3 Top Trumps card decks you would like from those available on their USA website.

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DISCLAIMER:  A Geek Daddy did not receive any financial compensation for this endorsement or hosting the giveaway.  This giveaway is being sponsored as a benefit to our blog readers and social media followers.  Must be over 18 years old and living within the continental United States to be eligible to win. Top Trumps will be responsible for delivery of the prize and A Geek Daddy is not responsible for fulfilling this giveaway.  By participating in this promotion, you waive any and all liability to the publisher of ageekdaddy.com.  Top Trumps reserves the right to forfeit the prize if you have already won this promotion on another website or social media channel.  Also dishonesty or fraudulently completing this giveaway's rafflecopter entries will disqualify someone.  Only one rafflecopter registration per individual please. Prizes based upon in stock availability and you may need to make an alternate selection if a particular deck is unavailable at the time of redeeming the prize. Top Trumps is not associated with President Trump or anyone in his family in any way. Good luck to all our entrants!

TOP TRUMPS

Kids are sure to have an out of this world time playing the SPACE edition of the Top Trumps card game.  My family has found Top Trumps' themed card decks a great family game night activity because they are both entertaining and educational to play.  In fact, teachers in the United Kingdom have been recommending students play with these card decks which incorporate a variety of themes ranging from animals to super heroes since the 1970's as a fun way to improve children's literacy and numeracy skills.  Over the last ten years, more than 80 million packs of Top Trumps cards have been sold in England making it one of the best-selling games in that country.  Top Trumps games are just becoming available in the United States and if you have children between the ages of 6 and 12 you should absolutely check them out.

There are over 60 decks to choose from with themes that are sure to capture kids' attention and imaginations. Each card in the deck has an eye catching image on it along with facts and figures relating to the theme.  Players need to read through the statistics and trivia on each card in order to win a round of the game.

Any number of people can play Top Trumps.  Here's how the game is played.  A dealer shuffles and deals out all the cards face down one at a time to each player to start off.   Players place their cards in a pile and can flip over and look at just their top card.  The person to the dealer's left picks a category from his top card and shouts it out.  Whoever has the card with the highest value in the selected category wins and takes away from his opponents all the losing cards used in the round.  This process continues around the table until only one person is left holding all the cards to win the game.  Of course everyone wins because as players scan the categories on their cards while competing in the game they are learning stats and trivia at the same time.

The SPACE edition of Top Trumps that my family has played included 2 decks of cards with the themes Wonders and Missions that are stored within a collectors tin shaped like the Earth.  The Wonders deck features stunning pictures of interstellar objects like black holes, moons and planets with categories that focus on topics such as size and distance.  While the Missions deck highlighted various vehicles and tools including a space suit, rockets,  and the Curiosity Mars Rover.  All of the cards featured snippets of trivia about their illustration portrayed on them which are always interesting to read when flipping through a deck.

My kids started off mostly interested in trying to win the game and really had a good time enjoying competing against one another.  As the game went on though, I noticed them taking more and more of an interest in checking out the pictures on the cards and they began asking me questions about the information included within each of the decks.  A few days after we played the SPACE edition of Top Trumps, I overheard my son talking to one of his friends about some of the "space facts" that he'd learned while playing the game.  That conversation cemented Top Trumps earning A GEEK DADDY's nod of approval for being an excellent way to get kids learning while they are also having fun.

Top Trumps' card decks can be purchased for under $10 and collector's tins like the SPACE set A GEEK DADDY was provided to review are less than $20.  Whether looking for an educational tool for an elementary school aged student or an entertaining holiday gift for a kid (decks are the perfect size for stocking stuffers), you can't go wrong picking up Top Trumps card games.  In addition to the SPACE themed decks, other themes include Baby Animals, Dinosaurs, DC Super Hero Girls, Harry Potter, Marvel Comic Book Heroes, and Star Wars.  To see all of the available decks, watch a "how to play" video, and  purchase the card game, please visit www.toptrumps.us